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The worlds of art, politics and passion collide in this masterful new novel, which ingeniously transports the reader to Donatello's Renaissance Italy, as witnessed through the eyes of Luca Mattei, a devoted assistant.
While creating his famous bronze of David and Goliath, Donatello's passion for his enormously beautiful model and part-time rent boy, Agnolo, ignites a dangerous jealousy that ultimately leads to Agnolo's brutal murder. Luca, the complex and conflicted assistant, will sacrifice all to save the life of Donatello, even if it means the life of the master sculptor's friend and great patron of art, Cosimo de Medici. The master sculptor's forbidden homosexual passions, and the artistry that enthralled the powerful and highly competitive Medici and Albizzi families, are beautiful rendered.
This is a sumptuously detailed historical novel that entertains while it delves deeply into both the sacred and the profane within one of the Italian Renaissance's most fabled cities, fifteenth century Florence.
Paperback, 328 Pages, Orig. Published 2014, This Ed. Published May 2016
Author: John L'Heureux.