num_pages: 422
description: Turning fifteen in Renaissance Florence, Alessandra Cecchi becomes intoxicated with the works of a young painter whom her father has brought to the city to decorate the family's Florentine palazzo.
language: English
title: The Birth of Venus
titlecomplete: The Birth of Venus
characters: Tomaso Cecci, Girolamo Savonarola, Painter, Alessandra Cecci, Cristoforo Langella
genres: Fiction, Adult Fiction, Historical, 15th Century, Romance, Italy, Historical Fiction, Book Club, Art, Adult
ratings_count: 97674
places: Italy, Florence, Tuscany
publisher: Virago Press