· Virginia Rounding enjoys Sarah Dunant's In the Company of the Courtesan, a vivid recreation of the life of a working girl in Renaissance Venice. Buy Author: Virginia Rounding. · In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel by Sarah Dunant. Publication Date: February 6, ; Paperback: pages; Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks; ISBN ; ISBN Thus begins In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant’s epic novel of life in Renaissance Italy. Escaping the sack of Rome in , with their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed, the courtesan Fiammetta and her dwarf companion, Bucino, head for Venice, the shimmering city born out of water to become a miracle of east-west trade: rich and rancid, pious and profitable, beautiful and squalid/5().
Free download or read online In the Company of the Courtesan pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in , and was written by Sarah Dunant. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this historical, historical fiction story are. IN THE COMPANY. OF THE COURTESAN. By Sarah Dunant. pp. Random House. $ SARAH DUNANT, the British author of "The Birth of Venus" and many other novels, is a refugee from the BBC who is. The story that Dunant creates, which mixes what really happened with fiction, is breathtaking. This book is well-written, and very much like The Birth of Venus, Dunant's novel that is set in Florence at the end of the fifteenth century. In the Company of the Courtesan has the same kind of qualities, but is a great book in its own way.
This is the first book by Sarah Dunant that I have read. Set in the 16th century it follows the life of Fiammetta, a Roman courtesan and her dwarf servant, Bucino. When Rome is sacked in they escape and make their way to Venice having lost everything except a few jewels they manage to hide. Virginia Rounding enjoys Sarah Dunant's In the Company of the Courtesan, a vivid recreation of the life of a working girl in Renaissance Venice. Buy In the Company of the Courtesan at the Guardian. In the Company of the Courtesan is a historical novel published in by Sarah Dunant. Set in 16th-century Italy, the novel traces the career of an expensive courtesan modeled on the woman portrayed in Titian’s famous painting “The Venus of Urbino,” and the associates and lovers who form her social circle. As she flees Rome and has to rebuild her livelihood in Venice, the reader gets a well-researched and de-glamorized look at the intrigue, politics, beauty, superstition, and dirt.
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