John L'Heureux
While creating his famous bronze of David and Goliath, Donatelloâ€™s passion for his enormously beautiful model and part time rent boy, Agnolo, ignites a dangerous jealousy that ultimately leads to murder. Luca, the complex and conflicted assistant, will sacrifice all to save Donatello, even his masterâ€™s friend--the great patron of art, Cosimo deâ€™ Medici. ,John Lâ€™Heureuxâ€™s long-awaited novel delivers both a monumental and intimate narrative of the creative genius, Donatello, at the height of his powers. With incisive detail, Lâ€™Heureux beautifully renders the master sculptorâ€™s forbidden homosexual passions, and the artistry that enthralled the powerful and highly competitive Medici and Albizzi families. The finished work is a sumptuous historical novel that entertains while it delves deeply into both the sacred and the profane within one of the Italian Renaissanceâ€™s most consequential cities, fifteenth century Florence.
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The Medici Boy