Description: A look into the tantalizing secrets of Florence's Palazzo Rucellai.
Review Quotes: "With the delicious happenstance of securing her lodging in a grand Renaissance Florentine palazzo (otherwise quite off limits to the public), the author weaves together a lively--dare one say sexy?--personal narrative with a chronicle of several hundred years in the life of the city's nobility. We meet not only the very multi-colored Rucellai family, but also a whole cast of other characters. There is hardly a bold-face name in the Italian Renaissance who doesn't get to play at least a cameo role. As we absorb a flood of delightful anecdotes from past and present, we slowly come to realize that we are in the hands of a scholar who is teaching us a great deal about a vibrant episode in the European past. The book is a triumph of both story-telling and history-telling."--Leonard Barkan, Michaelangelo: A Life on Paper