Mirror Mirror
Language: English
1476?-1507 1480-1519 Adaptations American Historical Fiction American Science Fiction And Fantasy Borgia Cesare Fairy Tales Fantasy Fantasy - General Fiction Fiction - Fantasy Folklore & Mythology General General & Literary Fiction Historical Historical & Mythological Fiction Historical - General Historical Fiction Italy Legends & Mythology Lucrezia Renaissance Sisters Snow White (Tale) folk tales
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: Sep 16, 2004
Description:
SUMMARY: The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives perched high above the rolling hills and valleys of Tuscany and Umbria at Montefiore, the farm of her beloved father, Don Vicente. But one day a noble entourage makes its way up the winding slopes to the farm -- and the world comes to Montefiore. In the presence of Cesare Borgia and his sister, the lovely and vain Lucrezia -- decadent children of a wicked pope -- no one can claim innocence for very long. When Borgia sends Don Vicente on a years-long quest, he leaves Bianca under the care -- so to speak -- of Lucrezia. She plots a dire fate for the young girl in the woods below the farm, but in the dark forest salvation can be found as well ... A lyrical work of stunning creative vision, Mirror Mirror gives fresh life to the classic story of Snow White -- and has a truth and beauty all its own.