Perspectives by Laurent Binet #literature and organic farming

and organic farming

ISBN: 9781035434930

' Sunday Times 'Her poems are moving

and The Aeroplanes at Brescia

its true life played out in the streets

Perspectives by Laurent Binet #literature and organic farmingFlorence, New Years Day 1557. As dawn breaks, a painter is discovered lying on the floor of a church, stabbed through the heart. Above him, the paintings he laboured over for more than a decade. At his home, a hidden painting scandalously depicting Maria de Medici, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Florence, as a naked Venus. Who is the murderer? Who is behind the painting? As the city erupts in chaos, Giorgio Vasari, the great art historian, is