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They're going to kill you. They're going to worship you, don't get me wrong. But they are going to kill you.

Playboy Sandro Botticelli has it all: talent, fame, good looks. He also has the ear and the wife of Lorenzo de Medici, as well as the Florence''s hottest young apprentice, Leonardo.

But whilst he is at work on his breakthrough commission, The Birth of Venus, Botticelli's devotion to pleasure and beauty is put to the ultimate test. As plague sweeps through the city, the charismatic friar Girolamo Savonarola starts to stoke the fires of dissent against the liberal elite. Botticelli finds the life he knows breaking apart, forcing him to choose between love and survival.

Jordan Tannahill's hot-blooded queering of Renaissance Italy questions how much of ourselves we are willing to sacrifice when society comes off the rails.

WINNER: Best New Play, Toronto Theatre Critics Award
WINNER: Governor General''s Literary Award <

Botticelli in the Fire

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 7 November 2019
      ISBN-13 9780571360161
      978-0571360161
      ISBN-10 0571360165
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      They're going to kill you. They're going to worship you, don't get me wrong. But they are going to kill you.

      Playboy Sandro Botticelli has it all: talent, fame, good looks. He also has the ear and the wife of Lorenzo de Medici, as well as the Florence''s hottest young apprentice, Leonardo.

      But whilst he is at work on his breakthrough commission, The Birth of Venus, Botticelli's devotion to pleasure and beauty is put to the ultimate test. As plague sweeps through the city, the charismatic friar Girolamo Savonarola starts to stoke the fires of dissent against the liberal elite. Botticelli finds the life he knows breaking apart, forcing him to choose between love and survival.

      Jordan Tannahill's hot-blooded queering of Renaissance Italy questions how much of ourselves we are willing to sacrifice when society comes off the rails.

      WINNER: Best New Play, Toronto Theatre Critics Award
      WINNER: Governor General''s Literary Award <

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