{"product_id":"tuscan-daughter-a-novel-isbn-9781443463515","title":"Tuscan Daughter: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn Renaissance Florence, a young artist searching for her missing mother is discovered by arch-rivals Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Tuscany during the early 1500s, Beatrice, a peasant girl, finds herself alone in the countryside after her father is killed and her mother disappears into the walled city of Florence. Barefoot and defiant, Beatrice enters the city to sell her family’s olive oil to the artists who toil to create masterworks that will elevate the status of the republic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile selling her wares, Beatrice befriends Michelangelo as he struggles to sculpt \u003cem\u003eDavid\u003c\/em\u003e and helps heal a melancholic woman who is having her portrait painted by the brilliant but aging Leonardo. Bonds deepen even while Michelangelo and Leonardo are pitted against each other in a competition organized by Machiavelli. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet during five epic years, \u003cem\u003eTuscan Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the humanity and struggles of a young woman who longs to find the only family she has left while seeking to be an artist in her own right. In her own way, Beatrice influences the artistic masters of the time to find peace with their inner demons as they stake everything on the power of beauty to transform and inspire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e | \u003cp\u003eA kaleidoscope of a novel, overflowing with the characters, art, suffering and discoveries of Renaissance Florence, \u003cem\u003eTuscan Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e brings history to life.  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnne Giardini, author of Advice for Italian Boys\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike 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 \u003cem\u003eTuscan \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eDaughter \u003c\/em\u003esurrounds them with ambitious, skilled, complicated women, rescuing through fiction what was lost in history.     - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElizabeth Renzetti, author of Based on a True Story and Shrewed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRenaissance Florence has inspired yet another exquisite work of scholarship, beauty, and craftsmanship.  \u003cem\u003eTuscan Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003esfumature\u003c\/em\u003e—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.    - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDianne Hales, author of La Bella Lingua, Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered, and La Passione: How Italy Seduced the World.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The cobblestone streets of Florence come alive in this heartfelt tale of the high renaissance. In \u003cem\u003eTuscan Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlenn Dixon, author of Juliet's Answer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century Florence comes to pungent, pulsing life—the gritty underclass, the artistic splendor, rivalries and ambitions, and the brutality of warring city-states.\" \u003cu\u003e \u003c\/u\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCathy Marie Buchanan, New York Times-bestselling author ofDaughter of BlackLake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Glorious . . . Impeccably researched and rife with lush detail and life’s wisdom.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperAvenue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889501466853,"sku":"NP9781443463515","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781443463515.jpg?v=1730231386","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/tuscan-daughter-a-novel-isbn-9781443463515","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}