Barbara Quick
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Language
English
Description
"Quick has chosen a fascinating backdrop. Her novel shimmers.…This is a good read." - Booklist
"Quick's descriptions of Anna Maria's violin playing soar off the page, evoking Vivaldi's own compositions." - San Francisco Chronicle
"A genuine successor to [Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring]." - Houston Chronicle
2) A golden web
Author
Language
English
Description
In fourteenth-century Bologna, Alessandra Giliani, a brilliant young girl, defies convention and risks death in order to attend medical school at the university so that she can study anatomy.