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Also by Marina Fiorato:

Beatrice And Benedick, December 2015
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The Venetian Bargain, April 2014
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The Daughter Of Siena, May 2011
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The Botticelli Secret, April 2010
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The Glassblower Of Murano, June 2009
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THE DAUGHTER OF SIENA
By: Marina Fiorato

St. Martin's Griffin
May 2011
On Sale: May 10, 2011
368 pages
ISBN: 0312609582
EAN: 9780312609580
Paperback
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Women's Fiction Historical

Amid the intrigue and danger of 18th-century Italy, a young woman becomes embroiled in romance and treachery with a rider in the Palio, the breathtaking horse race set in Siena....

It’s 1729, and the Palio, a white-knuckle horse race, is soon to be held in the heart of the peerless Tuscan city of Siena. But the beauty and pageantry masks the deadly rivalry that exists among the city’s districts.

Each ward, represented by an animal symbol, puts forth a rider to claim the winner’s banner, but the contest turns citizens into tribes and men into beasts—and beautiful, headstrong, young Pia Tolomei is in love with a rider of an opposing ward, an outsider who threatens the shaky balance of intrigue and influence that rules the land.