The Apprentice of Florence
by Ann D Kyle
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A young boy leaves home to seeks news of his father in Florence, but ends up as an apprentice to a silk merchant instead, and travels with him to Constantinople.
Hm. This one seems a bit all over the place, and I'm not certain at all what it was really meant to be about, I'm afraid. Not one of my favorite Newbery Honor Books; it really hasn't aged well, I think.
Hm. This one seems a bit all over the place, and I'm not certain at all what it was really meant to be about, I'm afraid. Not one of my favorite Newbery Honor Books; it really hasn't aged well, I think.
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- Canonical title
- The Apprentice of Florence
- Original title
- The Apprentice of Florence
- Original publication date
- 1933
- People/Characters
- Agenor di Giancavallo (Neno); Messer Bernardo di Deo; Everardo di Deo; Clarice di Deo (Rice); Giancavallo (Neno's father); Monna Lissa (show all 12); Pipo; Vanni Lucchesi; Bidda Betta (Bridget Elizabeth); Gemma; Maso; Cosimo de Medici
- Important places
- Florence, Tuscany, Italy; Genoa, Liguria, Italy; Constantinople, Byzantine Empire
- Important events
- Fall of Constantinople 1453
- Dedication
- To Louise And Helen And The Memory Of An Italian June
- First words
- One moment it seemed there was nothing in the whole world except stillness and emptiness, and the night was a mantle thick and black upon the shoulders of the hills. At the next the air was full of sound: shouts of men, the... (show all) shrill tongues of women, bleat of goats and the sharp clatter of donkeys' hooves upon the arch of an ancient bridge. The dark, too, was full of lights, as if the starry sky had drawn intimately near to earth. Constellations moved along it, as groups of peasants passed with lanterns in their hands, and sometimes a torch flared like a comet trailing its smoky tail across the lesser stars.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Bathed in this light and at this distance, they seemed to take on the quality of a city such as Dra Angelico might have painted - a heavenly city, radiant against a golden background of sky, mystic, tranquil, and eternal.
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- English
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