I always await Dunant’s Italian Renaissance novels with some impatience and this latest one about Isabella d’Este, the first female art collector and patron of her time, fulfils my high expectations. Full of scholarly research – only her correspondence remains intact in the archives in Mantua - you are transported to her turbulent time through a clever device that recognises how much women’s contributions have failed to be recognised in the past.
(Christine Miller - bwl 119 Winter 2026 ) |
