"In the Company of the Courtesan" von Sarah Dunant ist ein historischer Roman, der im 16. Jahrhundert spielt und die Geschichte der berühmten venezianischen Kurtisane Fiammetta Bianchini erzählt. Nach der Plünderung Roms im Jahr 1527...

The Times: Books of the Year, Best Historical Fiction of 2017`A stunning tale of power and family'Cosmpolitan Best Books of 2017`Dunant's vivid novel takes us back to Renaissance Italy ... I was gripped from start to finish'History...

1502 and Renaissance Italy is in turmoil. Backed by the money and wily power of his ageing father Pope Alexander VI, Cesare Borgia is soaring like a military comet, carving out a state for the Borgia dynasty. From Florence, a young...

Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family's Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a...