Marina Fiorato





Marina Fiorato

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Marina Fiorato is half-Venetian. She was born in Manchester and raised in the Yorkshire Dales.

She is a history graduate of Oxford University and the University of Venice, where she specialized in the study of Shakespeare’s plays as an historical source.

After University she studied art and since worked as an illustrator, actress and film reviewer.

She also designed tour visuals for rock bands including U2 and the Rolling Stones.

She was married on the Grand Canal and lives in North London with her husband, son and daughter.

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I'm becoming aware that I treat my electronic books and my paper books differently. I don't usually have one more than one book 'on the go' at a time (perhaps this pluralism is also a consequence of new technology?) but for some reason I'm happy to dip in and out of the ebooks in my iPad library with a casual carelessness I would never apply to my real books. For instance at the moment I am par... read more »
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Average rating: 3.59 · 3,807 ratings · 770 reviews · 6 distinct works
The Botticelli Secret
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 1,567 ratings — published 2010 — 16 editions
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The Glassblower of Murano
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 1,638 ratings — published 2006 — 15 editions
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The Daughter of Siena
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 466 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions
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The Madonna of the Almonds
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions
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The Venetian Contract
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012
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“A world of words where the black characters printed on the parchment he held meant more to this monk than the people or places around him.”
Marina Fiorato, The Botticelli Secret

“His life was cheap to him. Perhaps that's why he rode faster than any other, perhaps that was why he had walked into the house of Aquila without the quickening of a heartbeat: because at the heart of his courage was the fact that he really did not care if he died. Such courage is not true courage. True courage is when a man quakes with fear in the face of death, yet still risks his life for something he cares about. Ricardo Bruni did not know this yet, but he was to learn it soon.”
Marina Fiorato, The Daughter of Siena

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