In the tradition of Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring , Palombo has married fine art with romantic historical fiction in this lush and sensual interpretation of Medici Florence, artist Sandro Botticelli, and the muse that inspired them all.
- Booklist A girl as beautiful as Simonetta Cattaneo never wants for marriage proposals in 15th Century Italy, but she jumps at the chance to marry Marco Vespucci.
Marco is young, handsome and well-educated.
Not to men.
St. Martin's Griffin The most beautiful woman in florence: a story of botticelli, paperback/alyssa palombo
