Perspectives HC25 places and wildlife

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Sunday Times ‘Packed with surprising details about the human effects of the Russian assault … genial but also impassioned

This building was once filled with dancing showgirls in glitzy costumes

Perspectives HC25 places and wildlifeFlorence, New Years Day 1557. As dawn breaks, a painter is discovered lying on the floor of a church, stabbed through the heart. Above him, the paintings he laboured over for more than a decade. At his home, a hidden painting scandalously depicting Maria de Medici, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Florence, as a naked Venus. Who is the murderer? Who is behind the painting? As the city erupts in chaos, Giorgio Vasari, the great art historian, is