Tuscan Daughter - by Lisa Rochon (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>A novel of beauty and inspiration </strong><strong>set during the Italian Renaissance</strong><strong> about a young and defiant female artist searching for her mother.</strong></p><p>Florence, 1500--a city that glitters with wealth and artistic genius is also a place of fierce political intrigue, walled off from the unrest in the surrounding Tuscan countryside. In this moment, a peasant girl finds herself alone after her father is killed and her mother disappears. Young Beatrice must dare to enter the city to sell her family's olive oil in order to survive, but also to search the streets and opium dens for her missing, grieving mother. </p><p>Walking barefoot from her outlying village, Beatrice is given grudging permission to pass through the city gates to sell olive oil to the artists--Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli--who toil to elevate the status of the Florentine Republic. Lonely yet defiant, the peasant girl draws on the stone walls of Florence in secret as a way to express her pain. While desperately searching the city for her mother, Beatrice befriends the upstart Michelangelo as he struggles to sculpt the <em>David</em>. She also comes to know a cloth merchant's wife who is having her portrait painted by the aging Leonardo da Vinci, renowned through the land as Master of the Arts. Bonds deepen even while Michelangelo and Leonardo are pitted against each other. </p><p>Set during five epic years in the early 1500s when Florence was rebranding itself through its creative geniuses, <em>Tuscan Daughter</em> reveals the humanity and struggles of a young woman longing to find the only family she has left and be an artist in her own right, and the way she influences the artistic masters of the time to stake everything on the power of beauty to transform and heal.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Glorious . . . Impeccably researched and rife with lush detail and life's wisdom.--Toronto Star<br><br>Superbly researched and vividly imagined, Lisa Rochon's debut novel entwines the trials of a peasant girl with the unfolding drama of master artists Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci as they create their most revered works. In prose befitting the grace and beauty of the Renaissance, 16<sup>th</sup> century Florence comes to pungent, pulsing life--the gritty underclass, the artistic splendor, rivalries and ambitions, and the brutality of warring city-states. --Cathy Marie Buchanan, <em>New York Times-</em>bestselling author of<em>Daughter of Black</em><em>Lake</em><br><br>The cobblestone streets of Florence come alive in this heartfelt tale of the high renaissance. In <em>Tuscan Daughter</em>, Lisa Rochon weaves a rich tapestry of palaces and olive groves, of marble dust and genius; and a peasant girl who dreams of becoming an artist.--Glenn Dixon, author of <em>Juliet's Answer</em><br><br>Like a skilled sculptor, Lisa Rochon has chipped away the marble of time and given new life to Michelangelo, Leonardo and the artists of Renaissance Florence. Even better, her marvelous novel <em>Tuscan </em><em>Daughter </em>surrounds them with ambitious, skilled, complicated women, rescuing through fiction what was lost in history. --Elizabeth Renzetti, author of <em>Based on a True Story</em> and <em>Shrewed</em><br><br>Renaissance Florence has inspired yet another exquisite work of scholarship, beauty, and craftsmanship. <em>Tuscan Daughter</em> re-assembles familiar titans--Michelangelo, Leonardo, Machiavelli--in the magnificence of Renaissance Florence, but provides the fresh perspective of a young women struggling to find her way. Rochon's writing reminds me of the <em>sfumature</em>--the tiny feathery touches--that Leonardo used to create his masterworks. Stroke by stroke, phrase by phrase, she constructs a vivid portrait of a time and a place that never cease to fascinate. --Dianne Hales, author of <em>La Bella Lingua, Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered, </em>and <em>La Passione: How Italy Seduced the World.</em><br><br>A kaleidoscope of a novel, overflowing with the characters, art, suffering and discoveries of Renaissance Florence, <em>Tuscan Daughter</em> brings history to life. --Anne Giardini, author of <em>Advice for Italian Boys</em><br>
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