The Medici Boy
3.5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
In fifteenth-century Florence, young and beautiful Agnolo does whatever he must to survive. When he isn’t living with a soldier, he provides company for lonely men. But when his soldier is sent to war, Agnolo finds work as a model for the great artist Donato di Betto Bardi—otherwise known as Donatello.
While creating his famous bronze of David standing on the head of Goliath, Donatello develops a desire for Agnolo that ignites a dangerous jealousy. The artist’s assistant, the complex and conflicted Luca, is determined to save Donatello and put an end to the cattivo Agnolo.
With incisive detail, John L’Heureux beautifully renders the master sculptor’s creative genius, and the artistry that enthralled the powerful and highly competitive Medici and Albizzi families, in a novel of Renaissance Italy that is a “pleasure to read” (The Washington Post).
“A gripping story of love, genius, and betrayal.” —J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize–winning author
“A novel bursting with love—collegial, artistic, and erotic . . . [and] prose as passionate as his characters.” —David Henry Hwang, author of M. Butterfly
John L'Heureux
John L'Heureux was born in South Hadley, Massachusetts. He spent seventeen years as a Jesuit priest, after which he worked as an editor at the Atlantic; and for more than thirty years taught American literature and creative writing at Stanford, where he was the longtime director of the writing program. His stories appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and Harper's. He was the author of twenty-three books, including the novels The Beggar's Pawn, The Medici Boy, and The Shrine at Altamira; and the short-story collections Desires and Comedians. He lived with his wife in northern California until his death in 2019.
Read more from John L'heureux
An Honorable Profession: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Miracle: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Woman Run Mad Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Having Everything Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast: New and Selected Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to The Medici Boy
Related ebooks
The History of Living Forever: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Like a Mountain, Waiting Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Flower of Iowa Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Alec: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cold Fingers: Cold Fingers, #1 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Mercutio Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Book of Revelations Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Road Home Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What's Left of the Night Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Atom Heart John Beloved Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Brazen (Channeling Morpheus 6) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Man & Beast Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All American Boy: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5When Skies Have Fallen Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Carved In Bone: The Henry Rios Mysteries, #2 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Metes and Bounds: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Seventh of December: The Czarina's Necklace Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWolf Hall Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Purgatory: A Novel of the Civil War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maurice Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wicked Gentlemen Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Stranger from the Sea: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Why We Never Danced the Charleston Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Other Guy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Abroad: Book One: The Hellum and Neal Series in LGBTQIA+ Literature, #5 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Devil Lancer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tortoise Interruptus Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Pursued and the Pursuing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Slippery Creatures: The Will Darling Adventures, #1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Renaissance Fiction For You
Execution: A Giordano Bruno Thriller Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Story of the Stone Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTemptation's Darling Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Virgins of Venice: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The King's Curse Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Don Quixote Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Raphael, Painter in Rome: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sins of the House of Borgia Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Secret Supper: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Dead of Winter: Three Giordano Bruno Novellas Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wolf Hall: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Orlando, A Biography: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMedicis Daughter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Disobedient Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Virgin Earth: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Bring Up the Bodies: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Black Violin: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Treachery: A Giordano Bruno Thriller Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Glassblower of Murano Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Night Portrait: A Novel of World War II and da Vinci's Italy Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Taming of the Queen Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Palisades Park: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poison Bed Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I, Iago: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Uncrowned Queen: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Respectable Trade Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Jew: A Novel of The Spanish Inquisition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Madame Serpent: A Catherine de' Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Martyr: The First John Shakespeare Mystery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Medici Boy
2 ratings1 review
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I liked it, I read it in a short time.