num_pages: 346
description: While creating his famous bronze of David and Goliath Donatellos passion for his enormously beautiful model and part time rent boy Agnolo ignites a dangerous jealousy that ultimately leads to murder. Luca the complex and conflicted assistant will sacrifice all to save Donatello even his masters friend--the great patron of art Cosimo de Medici. John LHeureuxs long-awaited novel delivers both a monumental and intimate narrative of the creative genius Donatello at the height of his powers. With incisive detail LHeureux beautifully renders the master sculptors forbidden homosexual passions and the artistry that enthralled the powerful and highly competitive Medici and Albizzi families. The finished work is a sumptuous historical novel that entertains while it delves deeply into both the sacred and the profane within one of the Italian Renaissances most consequential cities fifteenth century Florence.
language: English
title: The Medici Boy
publisher: Astor + Blue Editions