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We meet Alessandra Cecchi, the protagonist and narrator of this first person novel, who we meet as a young girl, only fourteen-years of age in 1492 when the book starts. She lived, as the curse goes, in interesting times. Alessandra was raised in Florence at the height of the Renaissance, the city of Botticelli and Michelangelo proudly styled by its inhabitants the "New Athens." Except the preacher Savonarola is about to try to turn it into the "New Jerusalem" in ways that remind me less of the
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I loved this book! Beautiful and painful. Ms. Durant's writing style is delicious. I found myself re-reading paragraphs just to savor the feelings they evoked. I am thrilled to have stumbled across her. I will be a fan forever now!
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I didn't know what to expect when I first started this book. I enjoy historical fiction and was pleasantly surprised by this book.
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