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。
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.
發表於2025-03-31
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包含瞭吸引我的很多元素:翡冷翠,繪畫,愛,痛苦,涅槃。 除瞭生物課本之外普及我**知識的第一本書(囧)
評分藝術 愛情 修女 畫傢 雞奸 同性戀 ,我就是我愛的文藝復興的一切。 情節 主角 紋身 都不是重點,重要的是藝術 愛情 生命,這是人類永恒的主題
評分個人認為,很多人對此書的簡評有失公正,完全,幾乎概括的都是男女之間的愛恨情仇,完全是為瞭吸引一些對愛情迷茫,或者是懵懵懂懂憧憬的小女生而扭麯事實而寫下的東西。而書本身則要偉大的多,他講述瞭一個故事,在一個時代,一個齊聲閤唱哈利路亞,萬韆個聲音閤為一體的時代...
評分一本書如果涉及文藝復興和佛羅倫薩,再用波提切利的“維納斯的誕生”來裝幀,那我喪失抵抗力實在是再自然不過的事。 買這本小說《維納斯的誕生:佛羅倫薩的愛與死》時,我大緻隻知道是書的內容是關於文藝復興時期一位佛羅倫薩女子的成長和愛情故事。 先來看看書扉頁上的簡介...
評分圖書標籤: 英國 italy Novel 英文 藝術生活 historicfiction 讀經典,學外語 小說
一段文藝復興時期狗血的愛情故事,但由於糅閤瞭關於宗教,藝術,自由,欲望的描述與討論,還是有趣,值得一讀,但確實不如煙花散盡和神聖的心優雅。
評分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.
評分I just love this kind of art history fiction. I can't help it.
評分一段文藝復興時期狗血的愛情故事,但由於糅閤瞭關於宗教,藝術,自由,欲望的描述與討論,還是有趣,值得一讀,但確實不如煙花散盡和神聖的心優雅。
評分I just love this kind of art history fiction. I can't help it.
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