The Resource The brightest star, Emma Harcourt
The brightest star, Emma Harcourt
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The item The brightest star, Emma Harcourt represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- 1496. It is the height of the Renaissance and its flowering of intellectual and artistic endeavour, but the city state of Florence is in the grip of fundamentalist preacher Friar Girolamo Savonarola. Its good people believe the Lord speaks through him, just as certainly as the Sun circles the Earth. For Leonarda Lunetta, eldest daughter of the learned Signore Vincenzio Fusili, religion is not as interesting as the books she shares with her beloved father. Luna wants to know, to learn, to become an astronomer who charts the night sky ? certainly not the dutiful, marriageable daughter all of Florence society insists upon. So when Luna meets astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, she is not surprised that his heretical beliefs confirm her view that the world is not as it is presented ? or how it could be. Luna is a woman born out of time, the brightest star of her generation, but can she reconcile the girl of her father?s making with this new version of herself ? And if she does, will Renaissance Italy prove too perilous and dark a place for a free-thinking woman?
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 386 pages
- Note
- "It's a dangerous time to be a clever woman"--Cover
- Isbn
- 9781489249166
- Label
- The brightest star
- Title
- The brightest star
- Statement of responsibility
- Emma Harcourt
- Subject
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- Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543 -- Fiction
- Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737 -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Italy -- History -- 1492-1559 -- Fiction
- Renaissance -- Italy -- Fiction
- AUS historical fiction (New South Wales)
- Women -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- Women astronomers -- Fiction
- Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498 -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 1496. It is the height of the Renaissance and its flowering of intellectual and artistic endeavour, but the city state of Florence is in the grip of fundamentalist preacher Friar Girolamo Savonarola. Its good people believe the Lord speaks through him, just as certainly as the Sun circles the Earth. For Leonarda Lunetta, eldest daughter of the learned Signore Vincenzio Fusili, religion is not as interesting as the books she shares with her beloved father. Luna wants to know, to learn, to become an astronomer who charts the night sky ? certainly not the dutiful, marriageable daughter all of Florence society insists upon. So when Luna meets astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, she is not surprised that his heretical beliefs confirm her view that the world is not as it is presented ? or how it could be. Luna is a woman born out of time, the brightest star of her generation, but can she reconcile the girl of her father?s making with this new version of herself ? And if she does, will Renaissance Italy prove too perilous and dark a place for a free-thinking woman?
- Cataloging source
- AU@
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Harcourt, Emma
- Dewey number
- A823.4
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Savonarola, Girolamo
- Copernicus, Nicolaus
- Renaissance
- Women astronomers
- Women
- Florence (Italy)
- Italy
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The brightest star, Emma Harcourt
- Note
- "It's a dangerous time to be a clever woman"--Cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrie
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000071306638
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 386 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781489249166
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1306279312
- Label
- The brightest star, Emma Harcourt
- Note
- "It's a dangerous time to be a clever woman"--Cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrie
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000071306638
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 386 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781489249166
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1306279312
Subject
- Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543 -- Fiction
- Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737 -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Italy -- History -- 1492-1559 -- Fiction
- Renaissance -- Italy -- Fiction
- AUS historical fiction (New South Wales)
- Women -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- Women astronomers -- Fiction
- Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498 -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
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