Botticelli's Secret Italy ; Novelist Marina Fiorato Tours the Country's Finest Cities - On a Quest to Unravel a 600-Year-Old Mystery in Milan, in Milan, Even the Even the Skeletons Skeletons Dress in Dress in Designer Designer Clothes Clothes

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MY NOVEL The Botticelli Secret is a detective story that travels through the most beautiful cities of Renaissance Italy. At its heart is Botticelli's famous painting Primavera, which hangs in Florence's Uffizi Gallery.

Does the painting conceal an extraordinary mystery? For centuries, classical scholars have argued about the identity of the mysterious figures shown in the painting, coming up with competing views on what the work actually means. Do the figures represent Renaissance cities - is there an important political message concealed here? In my book, Luciana Vetra, a Florentine courtesan, goes on the run around Renaissance Italy, pursued by assassins, in a race against time to decode the painting.

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Botticelli's Secret Italy ; Novelist Marina Fiorato Tours the Country's Finest Cities - On a Quest to Unravel a 600-Year-Old Mystery in Milan, in Milan, Even the Even the Skeletons Skeletons Dress in Dress in Designer Designer Clothes Clothes

Her partner in crime is Brother Guido, a young Pisan nobleman from the Franciscan monastery of Santa Croce. Together they eventually uncover The Botticelli Secret.

Writing the book, I seized the opportunity to visit the cities that form the backdrop to the story, following my very own literary trail across Italy ...

FLORENCE... Luciana and Guido first meet on the Ponte Vecchio. I'm here with my husband Sacha - who has gamely agreed to be my Brother Guido for this trip - and we lean on the balustrade in the morning sun, debating where to begin. The obvious thought is with Botticelli's house, and we plunge into the dar...

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