Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities.
But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra’s parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile, Florence is changing, increasingly subject to the growing suppression imposed by the fundamentalist monk Savonarola, who is seizing religious and political control. Alessandra and her native city are caught between the Medici state, with its love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, and the hellfire preaching and increasing violence of Savonarola’s reactionary followers. Played out against this turbulent backdrop, Alessandra’s married life is a misery, except for the surprising freedom it allows her to pursue her powerful attraction to the young painter and his art.
The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain’s most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city.
From the Hardcover edition.
莎拉・杜楠特生活在倫敦和佛羅倫薩。寫過八部小說,編過兩本文集,其中小說《一錯再錯》(Transgressions)和《敢為人先》(Mappin9 theEdge)被搬上銀幕,引起瞭公眾廣泛的注意。她的職業生涯十分復雜,曾在電視颱、廣播電颱和齣版業工作過,現在仍是英國廣播電颱品牌藝術節目“夜間電波”的播音員。
一下是我看完书后写得一篇日志: 今天凌晨一两点多我才睡觉,终于把觊觎已久的书看完了。 心里真可以说是百感交集。 因为看书的速度太快,我又比较疲劳,看的时候并没有太多感慨。 然而看完整本书,我躺在床上,回想着书中的情节故事,竟然哭了。 我没想到我会哭,而且很想嚎啕...
評分个人认为,很多人对此书的简评有失公正,完全,几乎概括的都是男女之间的爱恨情仇,完全是为了吸引一些对爱情迷茫,或者是懵懵懂懂憧憬的小女生而扭曲事实而写下的东西。而书本身则要伟大的多,他讲述了一个故事,在一个时代,一个齐声合唱哈利路亚,万千个声音合为一体的时代...
評分非常具有艺术气息的一本书 让我喜欢的不行 他们的爱情 他们的对于艺术的执着 让我感动 让我羡慕 或许这两样东西 是我 着一生都会去欣赏 但不一定会作的让自己满意的 其实很羡慕生活在那样的一个时代 那样一个国都 人人都崇尚艺术 或许我也会想那些疯狂的艺术家...
評分一本书如果涉及文艺复兴和佛罗伦萨,再用波提切利的“维纳斯的诞生”来装帧,那我丧失抵抗力实在是再自然不过的事。 买这本小说《维纳斯的诞生:佛罗伦萨的爱与死》时,我大致只知道是书的内容是关于文艺复兴时期一位佛罗伦萨女子的成长和爱情故事。 先来看看书扉页上的简介...
評分一下是我看完书后写得一篇日志: 今天凌晨一两点多我才睡觉,终于把觊觎已久的书看完了。 心里真可以说是百感交集。 因为看书的速度太快,我又比较疲劳,看的时候并没有太多感慨。 然而看完整本书,我躺在床上,回想着书中的情节故事,竟然哭了。 我没想到我会哭,而且很想嚎啕...
Dunant shows her love for Florence, as the city---all its landscapes and sounds and smells lived vividly through the novel. I do enjoy the metaphorical "Birth" of our lady in the novel but the ending was just, rushed. Pretty engaging read.
评分I just love this kind of art history fiction. I can't help it.
评分讀起來很通順很舒服,確實有點狗血,結尾安排不太理解
评分I just love this kind of art history fiction. I can't help it.
评分結尾並不如我所期待,這確實是一本很engaging的書,如果可以明天寫兩本書的reviews。
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