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A Gift for the Magus, set mainly in Prato and Florence in the first half of the fifteenth century, centres on the life of the painter, Fra Filippo Lippi. According to his contemporary, Leon Battista Alberti, 'to be a good painter you must be a good man.' Fra Filippo Lippi, however, is notorious for his contempt of his vows: he was never obedient and never chaste. He gambles, cheats and beds the nun who is modeling for his pictures of the Virgin. Yet this apparently 'bad' man painted the most divine pictures; moreover, he was the favourite painter of that very astute patron, Cosimo de' Medici.
Was Alberti wrong, or was Lippi a better man than generally believed? While telling Lippi's compelling story, this novel explores the nature of goodness.
A Gift for the Magus is a prequel to 'The Botticelli Trilogy'.
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