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Pegasus Books
May 2016
On Sale: May 15, 2016
Featuring: Filippo Lippi
272 pages
ISBN: 1681771233
EAN: 9781681771236
Kindle: B019G14ZH2
Hardcover / e-Book
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Historical
An extraordinary story of passion, art, and intrigue,
this novel journeys to a time and place in Italy where
desire reigns supreme—and salvation is found in the
strangest of places. Beauty can be a gift—or a wicked
temptation. So it is for Filippo Lippi, growing up in
Renaissance Florence. He has a talent—not only can he see
the beauty in everything, he can capture it, paint it. But
while beauty can seduce you and art can transport you—it
cannot always feed you or protect you. To survive,
Pippo Lippi, orphan, street urchin, budding rogue, must
first become Fra Filippo Lippi: Carmelite friar, man of God.
His life will take him down two paths at once. He will
become a gambler, a forger, a seducer of nuns; and at the
same time he will be the greatest painter of his time, the
teacher of Botticelli and the confidante of the
Medicis. So who is he really—lover, believer,
father, teacher, artist? Is anything true except the paintings?
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