In the Company of the Courtesan
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Journal Entry 1 by operafantomet from -- wild release somewhere in Oslo, Oslo fylke Norway on Saturday, February 23, 2008
I love historical and "historical" novels (yes, there is a difference!), usually I don't expect too much from them. This book was both well researched AND well written. I love the atmosphere the book created, and I also liked that the historical references (as far as I've checked) was pretty accurate. Fiction doesn't always need to be "ren faire".
Description fromt he backside of the book:
"With their stomachs churning on the jewels they had swallowed, the courtesan Fiammetta and her companion dwarf Bucino escape the sact of Rome. It's 1527. They head for the shimmerin, decadent city of Venice. Sarah Dnant's epic novel of sixteenth-century Renaissance Italy is a story about the sins of pleasure and the pleasure of sin, an intoxicating mix of fact and fiction, and a dazzling portrait of one of the world's greatest cities at its most potent moment in history".
Enjoy!
Description fromt he backside of the book:
"With their stomachs churning on the jewels they had swallowed, the courtesan Fiammetta and her companion dwarf Bucino escape the sact of Rome. It's 1527. They head for the shimmerin, decadent city of Venice. Sarah Dnant's epic novel of sixteenth-century Renaissance Italy is a story about the sins of pleasure and the pleasure of sin, an intoxicating mix of fact and fiction, and a dazzling portrait of one of the world's greatest cities at its most potent moment in history".
Enjoy!