"In lush, glowing prose, Louise Hawes’s historical novel draws readers into the life and art of sixteenth-century Bologna with a compelling account of Lavinia Fontana, arguably the most famous female painter of the Italian Renaissance. Here readers will find a coming-of-age story filled with quest, complication, and catastrophe as well as miracles and hope. Although the novel is set four hundred years ago, the hard choices it involves sp ..."
"Aemilia Bassano Lanier is beautiful and accomplished, but her societal conformity ends there. She frequently cross-dresses to escape her loveless marriage and gain freedoms only men enjoy, but a chance encounter with a ragged, little-known poet named Shakespeare changes everything. They leave plague-ridden London for Italy, where they begin secretly writing comedies. Their Italian idyll, though, cannot last and their collaborative affai ..."
Die TÃ chter der Heilerin Historischer Roman by MarySharratt, Barbara Röhl Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2012 by Bastei Lübbe (Bastei Lübbe Taschenbuch) ISBN-13: 978-3-404-16666-4, ISBN: 3-404-16666-3