“Like Fra Filippo’s paintings, this love story, set in one of the most intriguing historical periods, is suffused with clear, warm color and fine attention to detail.”
—Debra Dean, author of
The
Madonnas of Leningrad
A vibrant and enthralling historical novel about art and passion,
The Miracles of Prato
by Laurie Albanese and Laura Morowitz brings Italy in the era of the Medici to glorious life—as it tells the story of an illicit love affair between the renowned painter Fra Filippo Lippi and his muse, a beautiful convent novitiate. A magnificent blend of fact, historical color, emotion, and invention,
is a novel that will delight the many fans of Tracy Chavalier’s
Girl with a Pearl Earring
and Susan Vreeland’s
Girl in Hyacinth Blue.