by Alexandra Ripley · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782714432339
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«La contadina» is the historical romance novel by Alexandra Ripley, published by Belfond in paperback, in French.
Set in Renaissance Florence, it tells the story of Ginevra de Pazzi, an orphan raised in the countryside by the patriarch of one of the city's most powerful families. In an era of artistic splendor and political intrigue, her life becomes intertwined with that of Lorenzo de' Medici and with figures such as Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci.
The novel was originally published in English as The Time Returns in 1985; this French Belfond edition dates from 1994.
For readers of historical and romantic fiction, with a particular interest in the Florence of the Medici and the Italian Renaissance.
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Alexandra Ripley was an American writer best known as the author of Scarlett (1991), written as a sequel to Gone with the Wind. Her first novel was Who's the Lady in the President's Bed? (1972). Charleston (1981), her first historical novel, was a bestseller, as were her next books On Leaving Charleston (1984), The Time Returns (1985), and New Orleans Legacy (1987).
