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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN FLORENCE
By: Alyssa Palombo
A Story of Botticelli
St. Martin's Griffin
May 2017
On Sale: April 25, 2017
Featuring: Simonetta Cattaneo; Marco Vespucci; Sandro Botticelli
320 pages
ISBN: 125007150X
EAN: 9781250071507
Kindle: B01LWROGLV
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A girl as beautiful as Simonetta Cattaneo never wants for marriage proposals in 15th Century Italy, but she jumps at the chance to marry Marco Vespucci. Marco is young, handsome and well-educated. Not to mention he is one of the powerful Medici familyโs favored circle. Even before her marriage with Marco is set, Simonetta is swept up into Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici's glittering circle of politicians, poets, artists, and philosophers. The men of Florenceโmost notably the rakish Giuliano de' Mediciโbecome enthralled with her beauty. That she is educated and an ardent reader of poetry makes her more desirable and fashionable still. But it is her acquaintance with a young painter, Sandro Botticelli, which strikes her heart most. Botticelli immediately invites Simonetta, newly proclaimed the most beautiful woman in Florence, to pose for him. As Simonetta learns to navigate her marriage, her place in Florentine society, and the politics of beauty and desire, she and Botticelli develop a passionate intimacy, one that leads to her immortalization in his masterpiece, The Birth of Venus. Alyssa Palomboโs The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence vividly captures the dangerous allure of the artist and muse bond with candor and unforgettable passion.
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