Florenzer by Phil Melanson

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Set in Renaissance Florence, Phil Melanson's  debut novel FLORENZER reimagines the intersecting lives of three men, a banker, a priest and a young artist - Leonardo da Vinci.

Brash and breathtaking, this lush historical drama explores the dangerous pursuit of artistic and political achievement-especially at a time when "florenzers," or gay men such as Leonardo, were often persecuted.
 
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'A captivating portrait of an all-too-human genius - subtle, erudite and exquisitely sexy' - James Cahill
 
'Introduces us to a teenage Leonardo still struggling to find himself amid the roiling artistic and political atmosphere of late-15th-century Florence . . . For a young man sexually attracted to other young men, this can be particularly dangerous . . . Yet his work may be his salvation.' - New York Times
 
'The novel, which owes a debt to Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy in the detail and immediacy of its telling, feels freshly contemporary in its papal intrigue and plutocratic power battles’ - Washington Post
 
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