The Miracles of Prato

by Laurie Albanese, Laura Morowitz

Overview

“Like Fra Filippo’s paintings, this love story, set in one of the most intriguing historical periods, is suffused with clear, warm color and fine attention to detail.”
 —Debra Dean, author of The Madonnas of Leningrad

 

A vibrant and enthralling historical novel about art and passion, The Miracles of Prato by Laurie Albanese and Laura Morowitz brings Italy in the era of the Medici to glorious life—as it tells the story of an illicit love affair between the renowned painter Fra Filippo Lippi and his muse, a beautiful convent novitiate. A magnificent blend of fact, historical color, emotion, and invention, The Miracles of Prato is a novel that will delight the many fans of Tracy Chavalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring and Susan Vreeland’s Girl in Hyacinth Blue.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780061558351
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	02/02/2010
Pages:	378
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Laurie Albanese is the author of the novel Lynelle by the Sea and the memoir Blue Suburbia, which was named a Book Sense Best Book of the Year and was an Entertainment Weekly Editor's Choice selection.

Laura Morowitz is a professor of art history and coauthor of Consuming the Past: The Medieval Revival in Fin-de-Siècle France. They both live in New Jersey with their families.

What People are Saying About This

Eleanor Herman

“The Miracles of Prato is a time machine, taking the reader back to the height of the Italian Renaissance, revealing a world of childlike innocence and illicit passion, harsh injustice and saintly miracles, and wafting around it all like rare perfume, the creation of art for the glory of God.”

Judith Lindbergh

“A richly detailed and thoroughly engrossing story told with equal measures of ardor, tenderness, and compassion, THE MIRACLES OF PRATO offers a poignant portrayal of the heartbreak of two people caught in the Church’s grip during the Italian Renaissance.”

Debra Dean

“Like Fra Filippo’s paintings, this love story, set in one of the most intriguing historical periods, is suffused with clear, warm color and fine attention to detail.”

Editorial Reviews

“Like Fra Filippo’s paintings, this love story, set in one of the most intriguing historical periods, is suffused with clear, warm color and fine attention to detail.” - Debra Dean, author of The Madonnas of Leningrad
“This novel based on the life of Fra Filippo Lippi will be lapped up by fans of historical romance.” - Publishers Weekly on MIRACLES OF PRATO
“The Miracles of Prato is a time machine, taking the reader back to the height of the Italian Renaissance, revealing a world of childlike innocence and illicit passion, harsh injustice and saintly miracles, and wafting around it all like rare perfume, the creation of art for the glory of God.” - Eleanor Herman, author of Mistress of the Vatican, on MIRACLES OF PRATO
“A richly detailed and thoroughly engrossing story told with equal measures of ardor, tenderness, and compassion, THE MIRACLES OF PRATO offers a poignant portrayal of the heartbreak of two people caught in the Church’s grip during the Italian Renaissance.” - Judith Lindbergh, author of The Thrall’s Tale, on MIRACLES OF PRATO
“An age-old story of the triumph of the human heart over rules, money, and propriety is set against a backdrop of artistic passion, overwhelming talent, and stunning beauty. This is an enchanting story and it will carry the reader away.” - Judith Koll Healey, author of The Canterbury Papers
“Richly textured Renaissance romance. …[T]he authors have fashioned an irresistibly passionate novel steeped in art, history, and the miracles wrought by love.” - Booklist on MIRACLES OF PRATO

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