The Medici Curse
by Matt Chamings
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Renaissance Florence: Alessandra, the daughter of the powerful Lorenzo Medici, sits for her portrait - a wedding gift for the man her father is forcing her to marry. Florence, 2005: Maria is on holiday visiting relatives when her father discovers an old painting. A portrait of a girl dressed in white. And the more he looks at it the more obsessed he becomes . . . From the moment Maria's father buys the mysterious painting, her family suffer a catalogue of disasters. Maria is convinced the show more painting is cursed - but how does she put a stop to it? show lessTags
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Caramellunacy Both are young adult historicals set in roughly the same era with a focus on Renaissance art.
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A young painter's apprentice with a dark secret is on his way to paint the portrait of Lorenzo de Medici's beautiful young daughter. But he has a darker purpose in mind as well - for the Medici's bloody past is twined with his own.
In present-day Italy, Maria finds herself drawn to the story of a lost painting of this young girl in white - but she also fears its curse. For everyone who has found the painting has suffered deep misfortune, and now Maria has begun to see visions of a young girl dressed all in white...
To be honest, I thought the Medici chapters were easily ten times more interesting than their contemporary counterparts. I liked to hear about Leonardo da Vinci's eccentricities, I enjoyed the story of the Pazzi Conspiracy, show more and the slowly growing Romeo & Juliet style love story. Arnaldo's interactions with Lorenzo de Medici were just bubbling with suppressed emotion and action. We have sword-fighting, painting, fanatical priests. There's just no way the modern sections can keep up. Ultimately the modern story left me unsatisfied. I think the book would have been richer had it been scrapped altogether.
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In present-day Italy, Maria finds herself drawn to the story of a lost painting of this young girl in white - but she also fears its curse. For everyone who has found the painting has suffered deep misfortune, and now Maria has begun to see visions of a young girl dressed all in white...
To be honest, I thought the Medici chapters were easily ten times more interesting than their contemporary counterparts. I liked to hear about Leonardo da Vinci's eccentricities, I enjoyed the story of the Pazzi Conspiracy, show more and the slowly growing Romeo & Juliet style love story. Arnaldo's interactions with Lorenzo de Medici were just bubbling with suppressed emotion and action. We have sword-fighting, painting, fanatical priests. There's just no way the modern sections can keep up. Ultimately the modern story left me unsatisfied. I think the book would have been richer had it been scrapped altogether.
More at my blog show less
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- People/Characters
- Lorenzo de' Medici
- Important places
- Florence, Tuscany, Italy
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- Fiction and Literature, Tween, Kids
- DDC/MDS
- 823.92 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 2000-
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- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook
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