| #1167730 in Books | Front Street | 2003-05-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x1.10 x5.80l,1.05 | File type: PDF | 302 pages | ||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| What a historical novel should be.|By Pamela Bronson|This is a beautiful book - a lot of fun and good food for thought. The prose is excellent. Since little is known about Dante's daughter Antonia, the author is free to tell her own story and she uses this freedom well. At the same time, she captures the flavor of a far-off time and place, where owning three dresses is amazin|From Booklist|Gr. 10-12. As in Heuston's The Shakeress (2002), the protagonist in this historical novel is a strong young woman who chooses her own way. The setting is early fourteenth-century Italy and Fra
When political upheaval forces her family to flee and separate, Antonia takes her brother's advice to heart as she journeys through Italy and France with her father, the poet Dante Alighieri. She becomes a pilgrim who also embraces interior journeys: she struggles with her difficult, inattentive father; with her heart's desire to paint as her father writes; and with her first tastes of young love. All the while Antonia harbors dreams that others tell her women are n...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Dante's Daughter | Kimberley Heuston. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
