The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Italian Renaissance novels—The Birth of Venus, In the Company of the Courtesan, and Sacred Hearts—has an exceptional talent for breathing life into history. Now Sarah Dunant t...

The entertaining author of The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesan delivers her third captivating audiobook set in Renaissance Italy. Santa Catarina, a convent near Venice, is home to over one hundred women in 1567. Bu...

In 1527, when the city of Rome is sacked and burned by an invading army, the famed courtesan Fiammetta Bianchini and her dwarf companion, Bucino Teodoldi, escape to the wealthy and powerful city of Venice in order to rebuild their bus...