The Marriage Portrait
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Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
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Renaissance Italy comes alive with menace and beauty in Maggie O'Farrell's The Marriage Portrait, a gripping historical novel that reimagines the brief, ill-fated life of Lucrezia de' Medici, the young Florentine noblewoman who became the Duchess of Ferrara in the sixteenth century. Thrust into a political marriage at fifteen to the powerful and volatile Alfonso II d'Este, Lucrezia begins to suspect that her new husband intends to have her killed — and the novel unfolds in alternating timelines that chronicle both her opulent Medici childhood and the terrifying first year of her marriage. O'Farrell, whose mastery of intimate, psychologically rich prose earned her the Women's Prize for Fiction for Hamnet, brings that same forensic empathy to this portrait of a girl determined to survive against impossible odds. Steeped in the lavish courts, political machinations, and artistic ferments of the Italian Renaissance, the novel argues that even those erased by history left an indelible mark on the world around them — and it leaves the reader breathless, asking whether Lucrezia will outwit the fate that history has already written for her.
Author: Maggie O'Farrell
Format: Hardback
Published: 2022, Tinder Press
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Renaissance Italy comes alive with menace and beauty in Maggie O'Farrell's The Marriage Portrait, a gripping historical novel that reimagines the brief, ill-fated life of Lucrezia de' Medici, the young Florentine noblewoman who became the Duchess of Ferrara in the sixteenth century. Thrust into a political marriage at fifteen to the powerful and volatile Alfonso II d'Este, Lucrezia begins to suspect that her new husband intends to have her killed — and the novel unfolds in alternating timelines that chronicle both her opulent Medici childhood and the terrifying first year of her marriage. O'Farrell, whose mastery of intimate, psychologically rich prose earned her the Women's Prize for Fiction for Hamnet, brings that same forensic empathy to this portrait of a girl determined to survive against impossible odds. Steeped in the lavish courts, political machinations, and artistic ferments of the Italian Renaissance, the novel argues that even those erased by history left an indelible mark on the world around them — and it leaves the reader breathless, asking whether Lucrezia will outwit the fate that history has already written for her.