In this arresting tale of art, love and betrayal in 15th-century Florence, the daughter of a wealthy cloth merchant seeks the freedom of marriage in order to paint, but finds that she may have bought ...

Sarah Dunant's book inspired the English women's choir Musica Secreta to record a "soundtrack" to the book: Sacred Hearts, Secret Music. The album features the music of Giovanni Palestrina and ...

Historical novelist Sarah Dunant has spoken to PEOPLE about her decision to give birth twice without pain relief to see how women used to suffer decades ago The author told people the experience was ...

Renaissance Italy enchants in Dunant's delicious second historical (after The Birth of Venus), as a wily dwarf Bucino Teodoldo recounts fantastic escapades with his mistress, celebrated courtesan ...

A British historical novelist recently revealed she chose to give birth to her two children without pain relief to better understand the suffering women endured for centuries. Sarah Dunant, 75, said ...

What more can be said about the infamous but fascinating Borgia dynasty? The answer seems to be a lot. British author Sarah Dunant, known for her three novels (“The Birth of Venus,” “In the Company of ...

I’ve just finished Sarah Dunant’s “Sacred Hearts,” the third novel in her best-selling Renaissance trilogy, this one set in a sixteenth-century Italian convent. Everyone praises Dunant’s ability to ...

is in London, just back from her "extremely small flat" in Florence, and she has a few things to say about her favorite Italian city. "It's been all pleasure," she said of the second home she's had ...

Sarah Dunant can’t always stomach her own historical fictions, said Paola Totaro in the Melbourne Age. The author of the best-selling The Birth of Venus started writing a trilogy about 15th-century ...

The flat in Florence was a gift to herself, a consolation prize for a love affair that came to a painful end just around the corner in a restaurant near the Piazza Santa Croce. When she took ...

What inspired realpolitik bare-knuckler Niccolo Machiavelli to compose his 16th century masterwork, The Prince? The real question might not be what, but whom? Cesare Borgia stands as the best ...

Sarah Dunant's latest book completes her trilogy of novels set in the Italian Renaissance. Sacred Hearts explores life in a 16th-century... Dunant's New Novel Reveals The Secret Lives Of Nuns Sarah ...