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A Great Love of Small Proportion: passion, romance and art in Renaissance Spain (Classic Historical Fiction)
A Great Love of Small Proportion passion romance and art in Renaissance Spain - Classic Historical Fiction Author:Colin Falconer A medieval romance set in Seville and the last days of the Alhambra. — Seville, 1489. — The end of the Reconquista. — Diego Sanchis is Seville's most famous painter; his glorious art fills every church in the famous city. He is also ugly, angry, and a dwarf. Nobody but his father loves him and Diego likes it just that way. — Until one day he is ... more »asked to take on a new student.
Mercedes Goncalvez is the most beautiful young woman in the city, and her father is rich and powerful. What could such a woman possibly see in him?
But there are many ways to see beauty. And beyond the dungeons of the Inquisition; beyond betrayal and torture; and even as the Christian cannons are turned towards the heavenly gardens of the Alhambra, Diego and Mercedes find true beauty among the ashes of last hopes.
A story of love, art and genius, perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory and Geraldine Brooks« less