{"product_id":"meeting-donatello-edmond-thornfield-9786501418148","title":"Meeting Donatello","description":"\u003cp\u003eUPON AN AUTUMN TWILIGHT IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY FIORENZA, RENZO, A CAPTAIN OF the Civic Militia, known this evening as Marco, attends a \u003cem\u003eriunione riservata\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMeeting Donatello\u003c\/em\u003e, a prequel to the Renaissance-set novel \u003cem\u003eA Tale of Paris \u0026amp; Paris: Echoes of Troy\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edmond Thornfield\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 6501418143\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9786501418148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ethorn Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/26\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 34\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.08d","brand":"Edmond Thornfield","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47424876904703,"sku":"9786501418148","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_789ee591-d295-4c3e-be4b-55f2d7121ff3.jpg?v=1761533123","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/meeting-donatello-edmond-thornfield-9786501418148","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}