A review by smittybeans0018
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

3.0

Being a Renaissance/Baroque enthusiast (my Master's concentration at Tulane), particularly focusing on Italian High Renaissance masters (Michelangelo in particular), I knew that this story could potentially miss the mark entirely for me. I could very possibly have hated this book. But this novel was happily written with responsible scholarship, which made the whole thing more convincing and enjoyable overall. Lovely writing style, too. I feel like the protagonist could have been beaten around a little more by the writer and her flaws made more layered and interesting (thus making her character more compelling and relatable), but on the whole, an enjoyable read.