num_pages: 640
description: A New York Times Bestseller 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 Cecchi, a young heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city.
language: English
title: The Birth of Venus
titlecomplete: The Birth of Venus
characters: Tomaso Cecci, Girolamo Savonarola, Alessandra Cecci, Painter, Cristoforo Langella
genres: Fiction, Historical, Italy, 15th Century, Book Club, Romance, Adult, Adult Fiction, Art, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 97679
places: Florence, Tuscany, Italy
publisher: Thorndike Press