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By Fay Picardi,Kathy Garvey

have you questioned approximately who Botticelli selected to depict in his immortal portray beginning of Venus? was once she a true individual, his version or his mistress? most folks realize her picture, yet few can identify her. Even fewer be aware of her own tale. have you learnt that her liaisons with the Medici relatives on the top of the Italian Renaissance brought on one of these sensation that the intrigue endures this present day? That Lorenzo de’ Medici wrote love poems to her? That Botticelli requested to be buried at her ft?
After years of analysis, poet and writer Fay Picardi conscientiously unveils the eye-catching narrative portrait of this interesting girl and provides sufficient element that the reader feels as though she or he is inhabiting Florence throughout the interval of Lorenzo de’ Medici.

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