I wasn’t surprised to read that Linda Proud spent 11 years researching A Tabernacle for the Sun and Pallas & the Centaur, two of the books that make up her ‘Botticelli Trilogy’.Their erudition, depth and breadth are quite astonishing. They are the work of a literary critic and historian of art, society, and philosophy. But most of all they are the work of a story-teller. Out of the myriad of fictions ‘inspired’ by Florence, these seem to be two of the most thoughtful, intelligent and artistic.
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