My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor’s army blew a hole in the wall of God’s eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment.
Thus begins In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant’s epic novel of life in Renaissance Italy. Escaping the sack of Rome in 1527, with their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed, the courtesan Fiammetta and her dwarf companion, Bucino, head for Venice, the shimmering city born out of water to become a miracle of east-west trade: rich and rancid, pious and profitable, beautiful and squalid.
With a mix of courage and cunning they infiltrate Venetian society. Together they make the perfect partnership: the sharp-tongued, sharp-witted dwarf, and his vibrant mistress, trained from birth to charm, entertain, and satisfy men who have the money to support her.
Yet as their fortunes rise, this perfect partnership comes under threat, from the searing passion of a lover who wants more than his allotted nights to the attentions of an admiring Turk in search of human novelties for his sultan’s court. But Fiammetta and Bucino’s greatest challenge comes from a young crippled woman, a blind healer who insinuates herself into their lives and hearts with devastating consequences for them all.
A story of desire and deception, sin and religion, loyalty and friendship, In the Company of the Courtesan paints a portrait of one of the world’s greatest cities at its most potent moment in history: It is a picture that remains vivid long after the final page.
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維納斯的誕生講述弗洛倫薩的興衰，這本則道盡瞭威尼斯的獨特精神。杜楠特的文藝復興係列，比任何曆史書都更能激得起對那個浮華炫麗又風起雲湧時代的嚮往。
评分維納斯的誕生講述弗洛倫薩的興衰，這本則道盡瞭威尼斯的獨特精神。杜楠特的文藝復興係列，比任何曆史書都更能激得起對那個浮華炫麗又風起雲湧時代的嚮往。
评分侏儒和妓女 Sarah Dunant 用一個男人的眼光寫一個女人的世界
评分侏儒和妓女 Sarah Dunant 用一個男人的眼光寫一個女人的世界
评分維納斯的誕生講述弗洛倫薩的興衰，這本則道盡瞭威尼斯的獨特精神。杜楠特的文藝復興係列，比任何曆史書都更能激得起對那個浮華炫麗又風起雲湧時代的嚮往。
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