Botticelli by Elizabeth Ripley (Purple House Press) puffin not only by critics and

not only by critics and the vast majority of his fellow citizens but by his own conscience

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Botticelli by Elizabeth Ripley (Purple House Press) puffin not only by critics andBotticelli's La Primavera, his Venus, his lovely pensive Madonnas are favorites all over the world. Less well known are his illustrations for Dante, his stark painting of The Outcast, and others after he came under the influence of Savonarola. Elizabeth Ripley's biography on one of the greatest Florentine painters gives us a picture of the Renaissance. The Medici, Pope Sixtus, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Charles VIII of France, and, above all,