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The Birth of Venus
by Euan Kerr, Minnesota Public Radio
March 10, 2004

St. Paul, Minn. — British writer Sarah Dunant's new novel opens with a scandalous discovery in 15th-century Italy. Two nuns preparing the body of Sister Lucretzia for burial, find a beautifully ornate tattoo of a snake slithering down her torso. The book tells how that tattoo got there. It's the story of nun as a young woman growing up in Florence at the birth of the Renaissance, experiencing the excitement and the terrors of the time.

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