Sarah Dunant

The dwarf and the courtesan

by Sandor Slomovits

posted 3/1/2006

Sarah Dunant published more than half a dozen books before her first historical novel, The Birth of Venus, catapulted her to the top of the New York Times best-seller list in 2003. The book was set in Renaissance Florence in 1492, and her heroine, Alessandra Cecchi, was an intelligent sixteen-year-old with considerable artistic talent, living in such sheltered

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