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The Marriage Portrait : A novel

✍ Scribed by Maggie O'Farrell

Book ID
110652099
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2022
Tongue
en-US
Weight
3 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780593320631

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The author of Hamnet --New York Times best seller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner--brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court.
Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father just as quick to accept on her behalf.

Having barely left girlhood behind, Lucrezia must now enter an unfamiliar court whose customs are opaque and where her arrival is not universally welcomed. Perhaps...

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