Author: Sarah Dunant
Translator: Ju-heon Kang
Publisher: Gallion
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About This Book
My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color
into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor’s
army blew a hole in the wall of God’s eternal city, letting in a flood
of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment.
Thus begins In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant’s epic novel
of life in Renaissance Italy. Escaping the sack of Rome in 1527, with
their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed, the courtesan
Fiammetta and her dwarf companion, Bucino, head for Venice, the
shimmering city born out of water to become a miracle of east-west
trade: rich and rancid, pious and profitable, beautiful and squalid.
With a mix of courage and cunning they infiltrate Venetian society.
Together they make the perfect partnership: the sharp-tongued,
sharp-witted dwarf, and his vibrant mistress, trained from birth to
charm, entertain, and satisfy men who have the money to support her.
Yet as their fortunes rise, this perfect partnership comes under threat,
from the searing passion of a lover who wants more than his allotted
nights to the attentions of an admiring Turk in search of human
novelties for his sultan’s court. But Fiammetta and Bucino’s greatest
challenge comes from a young crippled woman, a blind healer who
insinuates herself into their lives and hearts with devastating
consequences for them all.
A story of desire and deception, sin and religion, loyalty and
friendship, In the Company of the Courtesan paints a portrait of one of
the world’s greatest cities at its most potent moment in history: It is
a picture that remains vivid long after the final page.
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