For sale is this four cassette abridged audio book by Sarah Dunant. Entitled The Birth Of Venus, it is read by Jenny Sterlin and has a running time of 6 hours approx.

Synopsis: "Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the family chapel in their Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by his abilities. As Medici Florence is threatened by the hellfire of the monk Savonarola, the painter and his dazzling art exert an ever more powerful and erotic pull."

Issued by Time Warner, the ISBN is 1-4055-0094-8 and the date of issue is 2005.

This item is in excellent condition.