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The Botticelli Trilogy

The main purpose of this site is to give background material to The Botticelli Trilogy. It is currently being developed and added to, so while I continue to add some fancy pages, please have a browse and visit again soon. You may get additional information at www.godstowpress.co.uk/authors.htm and http://lindaproud.blogspot.com/ .

What we have at the moment is:

A summary of A Tabernacle for the Sun.
A summary of Pallas and the Centaur.
Author's biography.
Itineraries for visits to Florence, and environs of Florence.
A page on Renaissance music

What is to come:

A list of characters appearing in the novels, along with basic details, pictures and links.
A bibliography, highlighting the works I recommend as further reading.
Miscellaneous notes.
Itineraries for visits to Tuscany and Italy.

News and Events

There is a long, two-part interview by Sarah Johnson on her blog dedicated to historical fiction. Go to http://readingthepast.blogspot.com (Monday 28 April and Wednesday 30 April 2008)
Sense of Place writing workshop 18th November 2008, 19th March 2009, 6th june 2009
Life writing workshop 23rd November 2008, 14th March 2009, 4th June 2009

All workshops to be held for half day in the inspirational setting of Waterperry Gardens, nr Wheatley, Oxfordshire. See www.waterperrygardens.co.uk

Dem bones

The results on the exhumation of the bones of Pico della Mirandola and Poliziano were published on 7 February 2008. They were both poisoned by arsenic. This was always suspected to be the case with Pico, but it is new knowledge for Poliziano (at least for scientists - this novelist got there first). I trust it will put paid once and for all to the character assassination that has been going on for four hundred years, begun by those responsible for his murder.

What is new knowledge is that Poliziano was only five feet tall. I never imagined myself looking down on him. Still, he was four inches taller than Ficino: that must have helped.

Lorenzo gets some colour in his cheeks

The conservation department at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, have restored the colour to the terracotta bust after Verrocchio.

Terracotta bust of Lorenzo Lorenzo de' Medici, 1478/1521
(image after conservation treatment)
Florentine, 15th or 16th century, probably after a
model by Andrea del Verrocchio and Orsino Benintendi
Painted terracotta
65.8 x 59.1 x 32.7 cm (25 7/8 x 23 1/4 x 12 7/8 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1943.4.92
National Gallery of Art, Washington
© 2006 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington

Creative Writing

For manuscript assessment, mentoring or creative writing tutorials, please contact me via info@www.godstowpress.co.uk.