The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel
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The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a mysterious woman, a great beauty believed to possess the powers of enchantment and sorcery, attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It is the story of two cities at the height of their powers-the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant emperor Akbar the Great wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire, and the treachery of his sons, and the equally sensual city of Florence during the High Renaissance, where Niccolò Machiavelli takes a starring role as he learns, the hard way, about the true brutality of power. Profoundly moving and completely absorbing, The Enchantress of Florence is a dazzling book full of wonders by one of the world's most important living writers.
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The Writer Salman Rushdie’s novel, The Enchantress of Florence is set in the magical realism of Renaissance World (Lindsay & Meehan 2022). The Enchantress of Florence combines fantasy and historical figures in the tradition of magical figures. Many real figures of the Renaissance World appear in the novel from the Mughal Emperor Akbar I (who died in 1605) and the Italian Political Philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli (who died in 1527). A fictional re...read more
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