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The Enchantress of Florence is the ninth novel by Salman Rushdie, published in 2008. [1] According to Rushdie this is his "most researched book" which required "years and years of reading". [2] The novel was published on 11 April 2008 by Jonathan Cape London, and in the United States by Random House. [3]
T. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay. Categories: Florence in fiction. Novels set in Italy by city. Novels set in Tuscany. Works set in Florence.
Bill Buford. William Holmes Buford (born 6 October 1954) [1] is an American author and journalist. He is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. Buford was previously the fiction editor for The New Yorker, where he ...
Plot. Hollywood superstar Irene Malvern is in New York City for a friend's wedding and the premiere of her latest blockbuster. She’s staying at the Waldorf-Astoria.So is weary war correspondent Chip Collyer, catching a quick rest before shipping back out overseas; also there is Air Force Capt. James Hollis, wounded in World War II, facing perilous surgery in three days; so is notorious ...
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Contessina Antonia Romola di Lorenzo de' Medici ( Pistoia, 16 January 1478 - Rome, 29 June 1515) was an Italian noblewoman, ninth child and fifth and last daughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Lord of Florence, and his wife Clarice Orsini. She was the wife of the Florentine Piero Ridolfi, later made Count Palatine by her elder brother Pope Leo X.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was a Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance.He is best known for his political treatise The Prince (Il Principe), written around 1513 but not published until 1532, five years after his death.
Andrea di Bonaiuto da Firenze or Andrea da Firenze (I) (active 1343 – 1377) was an Italian painter active in Florence. He was probably born in Florence where he was active from 1343. [1] His earliest works suggest that he was in close contact with the workshop of Andrea di Cione. [2]