# The Birth of Venus

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- Book: [The Birth Of Venus](https://www.bookquiver.com/sarah-dunant/the-birth-of-venus) ([The Birth Of Venus.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sarah-dunant/the-birth-of-venus.md))
- Authors: [Sarah Dunant](https://www.bookquiver.com/sarah-dunant)
- Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
- ISBN: 978-08-1296-897-2
- Pages: 448
- Published: 2004-11-30
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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....