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SUMMARY:August's Book: The Marriage Portrait
LOCATION:Duke of York
DESCRIPTION:Saved in Palaner as: saved\n\nPalaner match: 32% · why: lots of
  people going\n\nFlorence\, the 1550s. Lucrezia\, third daughter of the gr
 and duke\, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to w
 onder at its treasures\, observe its clandestine workings\, and devote her
 self to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the e
 ve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara\, Modena and Reggio\, Lucrezia i
 s thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her 
 hand in marriage\, and her father just as quick to accept on her behalf.\n
 \nHaving barely left girlhood behind\, Lucrezia must now enter an unfamili
 ar court whose customs are opaque and where her arrival is not universally
  welcomed. Perhaps most mystifying of all is her new husband himself\, Alf
 onso. Is he the playful sophisticate he appeared to be before their weddin
 g\, the aesthete happiest in the company of artists and musicians\, or the
  ruthless politician before whom even his formidable sisters seem to tremb
 le?\n\nAs Lucrezia sits in constricting finery for a painting intended to 
 preserve her image for centuries to come\, one thing becomes worryingly cl
 ear. In the court’s eyes\, she has one duty: to provide the heir who will 
 shore up the future of the Ferranese dynasty. Until then\, for all of her 
 rank and nobility\, the new duchess’s future hangs entirely in the balance
 .\n\nFull of the beauty and emotion with which she illuminated the Shakesp
 earean canvas of Hamnet\, Maggie O’Farrell turns her talents to Renaissanc
 e Italy in an extraordinary portrait of a resilient young woman’s battle f
 or her very survival.
URL:https://www.meetup.com/toronto_bookclub/events/315593500/
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