Edmond Thornfield

Meeting Donatello (Chronicles of Cortona, #0) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

UPON AN AUTUMN TWILIGHT IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY FIORENZA, RENZO, A CAPTAIN OF the Civic Militia, known this evening as Marco, attends a riunione riservata in honor of Maestro Donato. Within a lavish palazzo on Via Porta Rossa, the Florentine intellectual elite surrounds him-men who take delight not only in art but in one another. Amid poets, painters, and philosophers, he is drawn into a forbidden world where art and desire entwine, and his presence stirs admiration and intrigue. The great sculptor welcomes him into the fold, whereupon he must needs reckon with a truth long left unspoken. By the time the night wanes from art and philosophy to veiled confessions, no longer is he merely an observer but bound to a hidden brotherhood, caught between duty and desire, between the rigid expectations of his station and the intoxicating domain he has entered. In Meeting Donatello, a prequel to the Renaissance-set novel A Tale of Paris & Paris: Echoes of Troy, the reader is drawn into a world where art and longing are as perilous as they are beguiling, and where a single evening holds the power to shape a man's destiny. When Renzo returns home to Cortona, he shall not be the same.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: ETHORN PUBLISHING
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786501728155
• Artikelnr.: 75580692

Autorenporträt

A retired copywriter and graphics designer from Los Angeles, California, Edmond Thornfield enjoys a writer's and restaurateur's life in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

After a lifetime of reading works of classical literature from authors such as Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Oscar Wilde, Jane Austen, Sidney Sheldon, and Anne Rice, he decided to write what he has always searched for and never found: stories of gay protagonists who defied their age's norms. He has completed the novel Chronicles of Cortona AD 1450 (publishing soon), in which a couple of male lovers fight against the Inquisition, and currently writes Asterios and the Labyrinth, a tale of love and betrayal in Minoan Crete, circa 1450 BCE.

Edmond has also written the Queer Classicist Manifesto, calling on other writers to join him on a crusade to restore LGBTQ+ voices from the past into classical literature.

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