The birth of venus dunant6/25/2023 ![]() Born with an unstoppable curiosity and considerable artistic talent, Alessandra understandably chafes at the restrictions placed on women at the time, and The Birth of Venus chronicles her life from her early teens as her sister marries and her brothers continue to torment her, through her own marriage and life outside of her parents’ home. The part that kept me up is what’s keeping the book from getting an A.Īlessandra Cecchi is the daughter of a prominent fabric merchant in Florence at the end of Lorenzo d’Medici’s political dynasty during the 15th century Renaissance. I finished it last night – and then, it kept me up. I got sucked in, to the point where I finished the rest of the book in a nonstop readathon where I carried that book everywhere, even reading parts of it aloud to my son while he had his bottle. I rarely tell someone I didn’t like a book they let me borrow. In fact, I put another book in my bag, thinking I would give this one back to its owner with a “Thanks – it was good.” ![]() ![]() I didn’t think I’d ever get into this book, despite a bookmark placed three-quarters of an inch into the text. ![]()
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