Author Talk: The MARCHESA
Aug
20

Author Talk: The MARCHESA

Free entry.

The Sunday Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Italian Renaissance novels, The Birth of Venus, In the Company of the Courtesan and Blood and Beauty, has an exceptional talent for breathing life into history. Now Sarah Dunant turns her discerning eye to the foremost female art collector and patron of the Renaissance — Isabella d’Este, the Marchesa of Mantua — in a bold, new history that blends fiction with biography and art.

Signed books will be available to buy on the day.

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Sept
4

NATIONAL GALLERY ON LINE BOOK CLUB

The Marchesa will be the subject of the National Gallery’s online book club this September. Sarah will be in the National Gallery studio in conversation with one of its great lecturer/guides Sian Walters, and anyone and everyone can join in on line with questions, comments and thoughts about the novel, Isbaella herself, the art she collected and the renaissance in general. Fun should be had! Link to follow



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Unearthing the Past
Jun
30

Unearthing the Past

To coincide with the publication of The Marchesa, a series of five fifteen-minute original essays for BBC Radio 4 on the life, letters and times of Isabella d’Este, and the way the best of historical fiction challenges us to make imaginative journeys into very different worlds than our own.

Monday 30th June – Friday 4th July. 11.45 am

Then on BBC sounds. Listen now!

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