Godstow Press: 4 books

A Gift for the Magus is a novel about the painter, Fra Filippo Lippi, his adventurous life and his dramatic relationship with his patron, Cosimo de' Medici. According to Alberti, to be a good painter you must be a good man. Was Alberti wrong, or was Lippi a better man than generally believed? While...

A Tabernacle for the Sun is a novel set in the Florence of Lorenzo de' Medici and is the first part of The Botticelli Trilogy. Freedom - is it Florence without the Medici, or a condition of the soul? This is the question facing Tommaso de' Maffei, an apprentice scribe who cannot forgive Lorenzo for sacking...

The Florentine Renaissance came to a brutal end with the fundamentalist politics of Savonarola. The experiment of The New Jerusalem ended in hell andTommaso de’ Maffei fled to England. This final part of the trilogy is set in 1506, when Tommaso returns to Italy in the company of Erasmus. On the...

Pallas and the Centaur is the second part of 'The Botticelli Trilogy.' Following the Pazzi Conspiracy, Florence finds itself at war with Rome and Naples. Lorenzo de' Medici, whose brother was murdered by the Pazzi, has no doubt that he has God on his side. His wife, Clarice, is not so sure. Roman-born...