Sarah Dunant

From the acclaimed author of The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesan comes a vibrant exploration of the Italian Renaissance through the character of Isabella d’Este, the first female art collector and patron of her time.

It is 1502, and Rodrigo Borgia, a self-confessed womanizer and master of political corruption, is now on the papal throne as Alexander VI....

By the end of the 15th century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and inside the Church....

My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor’s army blew a hole in the wall of God’s eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment....

The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God’s protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force....

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....

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....

Rodrigo Borgia picks up his papal skirts and walks out on to the public balcony....

In the Name of the Family - as Blood and Beauty did before - holds up a mirror to a turbulent moment of history, sweeping aside the myths to bring alive the real Borgia family....

Escaping the sack of Rome in 1527, the courtesan Fiammetta and her dwarf companion, Bucino, head for Venice....

The year is 1527. While the Papal city of Rome burns, two of her most interesting and wily citizens slip away....

Alessandra must make crucial decisions about the shape of her adult life, as Florence itself must choose....

While the Papal city of Rome burns, two of her most interesting and wily citizens slip away....

Alessandra is not quite fifteen when her prosperous father brings a young painter back from Holland....

Året er 1527 og vi befinder os i renæssancens Italien. Her møder vi kurtisanen Fiametta og hendes trofaste ven og følgesvend dværgen Bucino. På...

Året er 1492, og Alessandra er knap 15 år, da hendes far, en velstående klædehandler, tager en maler med hjem fra Nordeuropa. Maleren skal udsmykke...

Rom, im August 1492. Schon am frühen Morgen ächzt die Stadt unter der Gluthitze des Sommers. Der Lärm in der engen Gasse lässt Lucrezia...

«В обществе куртизанки» - это яркий портрет одного из величайших городов мира в самый важный период его существования и, одновременно с этим, история о желании и обмане, грехе и величии, верности и дружбе.

Монастырь Санта-Катерина - пристанище дворянок, живущих под защитой Бога. Многим из них не хватило денег на хорошее приданое и замужество, и они были вынуждены пойти в монашки.

Флоренция на пороге Реформации. Медичи теряют силу и доверие флорентийцев.