http://www.bradsreader.com/2008/12/mini-review-the-miracles-of-prato/ All Things Literature & Writing Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:15:20 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.bradsreader.com/2008/12/mini-review-the-miracles-of-prato/comment-page-1/#comment-237 laurie lico albanese Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:39:00 +0000 http://bradsreader.com.s47315.gridserver.com/2008/12/mini-review-the-miracles-of-prato/#comment-237 Brad - thank you for your wonderful review of my new novel, The Miracles of Prato. I welcome readers to visit my website, and join in the conversation about the fates of Fra Lippi and Lucrezia Buti in a time when the lives of women, and orphans like Lippi, were dictated by the church and social expectations. Was their love wrong? Was Lippi right to take his muse where he found her -- even if she was inside the convent walls? What other choice did artists have but to follow the will of the church and other powerful patrons such as the Medici family? Please let me know what you think! - Laurie Albanese Brad – thank you for your wonderful review of my new novel, The Miracles of Prato. I welcome readers to visit my website, and join in the conversation about the fates of Fra Lippi and Lucrezia Buti in a time when the lives of women, and orphans like Lippi, were dictated by the church and social expectations. Was their love wrong? Was Lippi right to take his muse where he found her — even if she was inside the convent walls? What other choice did artists have but to follow the will of the church and other powerful patrons such as the Medici family?
Please let me know what you think!
- Laurie Albanese

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