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Bezig met laden... A Tabernacle for the Sun (1997)door Linda Proud
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. The first in Linda Proud's "Botticelli Trilogy", this is refreshing historical fiction for anyone who enjoys being intellectually challenged by his or her reading material. It follows the young Tommaso de' Maffei, as he moves from his native Volterra to Florence and Rome, and back again to Florence. In the process, he comes of age, befriends the up-and-coming poet Angelo Poliziano, encounters the Medici brothers, Lorenzo and Giuliano, falls in with the irrepressible Filippino Lippi, and inadvertently becomes mixed up in a complicated network of allegiances and revenge that leads to the Pazzi Conspiracy. Beautifully written, soundly researched and rewarding. Thoroughly recommended to anyone who enjoys accurate historical fiction with a soul. ( ) What a great vein to mine, but how little fine metal is refined by this earnest novelist in her recreation of the court of Lorenzo "the Magnificent". The piece exmaines the inner workings of Lorenzo's life and work, and turns -- as some might say that his life itself actually did -- on the conspiracy of the Pazzi. The story is the reminiscence of a young man farmed-out for service to the Medici. Despite his own lack of prominence and prospects, he is closely related to some of the arch-villains in the conspiracy, and consequently faces an obvious conflict between loyalty to his patron and loyalty to his family. The latter portions of the story present a clever but naive suggestion that the fictional young man was a model for one of the figurs in Botticelli's PRIMVERA. Would that the reserach behind this work had been even half-matched by energy and grace in the writing. This is a beautiful historical novel, set in Florence during the early Renaissance, the time of Lorenzo de' Medici. The narrator is a purely fictional creation, but almost everyone else in the novel is a historical person: Lorenzo de' Medici and his brother Giuliano; the artist Sandro Botticelli; the ravishingly beautiful Simonetta Vespucci; the narrator's relations, the Maffei family; and especially the Italian humanist philosopher Marcilio Ficino, Lorenzo's boyhood tutor, who profoundly influenced the future course of European philosophy and the history of ideas by translating the works of Plato into Latin and introducing them to a European society disillusioned with the church and hungry for meaning. I was expecting this novel to be rather dry, but it wasn't - a delightful surprise. I've posted a longer review at www.HistoricalNovels.info. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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The young Tommaso dei Maffei is forced to leave his native Volterra after its destruction by the forces of his idol, Lorenzo de'Medici, the ruler of Florence. So he is taken to Florence and apprenticed as a scribe, during a time of political and social upheaval, and an imminent uprising. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999WaarderingGemiddelde:
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