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Alessandra is nearly fifteen when her prosperous merchant father brings a painter back with him from Holland to adorn the walls of the new family chapel. She is fascinated by his talents and envious of his skills and opportunities to paint to the glory of God. Soon her love of art and her lively independence are luring her into closer involvement with a variety of taboo areas of life. On excursions into the streets of night-time Florence she observes an awful evil stalking the city and witnesses the rise of the fiery young priest, Savanarola, who has set out to rid the city of vice, richness, even art itself. Alessandra must make crucial decisions about the form of her adult life, as Florence itself must choose between the old ways of the luxury-loving Medicis and the asceticism of Savanorola. And through everything, there is the painter, whose love will change everything.
