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A Gift for the Magus is the story of Fra Filippo Lippi and his powerful relationship with Cosimo de' Medici. Through the guidance of his patron, Lippi - a liar, a cheat and a gambler who fathers children on the nun who models for him, becomes a painter of divinity. It is a prequel to 'The Botticelli Trilogy'.
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The Rebirth of Venus is the last part of The Botticelli Trilogy, following A Tabernacle for the Sun and Pallas and the Centaur. Set in the 1480s and 90s, it tells the story of murder, not only of the leading men of the age, but of the age itself, the Renaissance dying in Savonarola's bonfires. Tommaso de' Maffei was charged with the task of taking the Platonic wisdom to England, but in England he finds he has lost touch with the truth of his philosophy,...
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