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Below is an excerpt from Marina Fiorato's next book:-THE BOTTICELLI SECRET- Coming Spring 2010
The preachers spill poison about the likes of me from their pulpits, and decent women spit at me in the street. The Lord and the Devil compete for the souls of the Florentines, and sometimes I think the Devil is winning; if you enter the Battistero and look upon the mosaics of the Last Judgement, which bit do you look at first? Heaven, with the do-gooding angels and their haloes and hallelujahs? Or Hell, with the long-eared Lucifer devouring the damned? And if you were to read Signor Dante’s Divina Commedia, would you start with Paradiso, with it’s priests and pope-holy prelates? Or the Inferno, where the skies rain blood and feckless nobles fry feet first? You know the answer.
So there was I; a jade and a jezebel, reviled by decent folk, touting one or more of the Deadly Sins on the street. A lost sheep. Sometimes though, a shepherd will come among us; one of the godly, selling salvation.
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"I would never have guessed that this was a first novel; Marina Fiorato has beautifully recreated the bright, glittering world of the seventeenth-century glassblower, and nestled it surely within a compelling contemporary romance." –Jeanne Kalogridis, author of The Borgia Bride and I, Mona Lisa"The Glassblower of Murano is a compelling story, richly detailed, with wonderful, memorably drawn characters." –Diane Haeger, author of The Secret Bride and The Ruby Ring"Fiorato captivates her reader as surely and intricately as the beautiful city of Venice enchants her characters. A fascinating tale of mystery and dedication, of love and betrayal." --Kate Furnivall, author of The Russian Concubine
MARINA FIORATO is half-Venetian and a history graduate of Oxford University and the University of Venice, where she specialized in the study of Shakespeare’s plays as an historical source. She has worked as an illustrator, actress, and film reviewer, and designed tour visuals for rock bands including U2 and the Rolling Stones. The Glassblower of Murano, her debut novel, has generated enormous attention in Europe, having sold over 100,000 copies in Germany and ranked #1 on the Independent Publishers' list in the UK. She was married on the Grand Canal in Venice, with a reception on Murano, and now lives in London with her family.
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