I’ve just finished Sarah Dunant’s “Sacred Hearts,” the third novel in her best-selling Renaissance trilogy, this one set in a sixteenth-century Italian convent. Everyone praises Dunant’s ability to ...
In this arresting tale of art, love and betrayal in 15th-century Florence, the daughter of a wealthy cloth merchant seeks the freedom of marriage in order to paint, but finds that she may have bought ...
Sarah Dunant's book inspired the English women's choir Musica Secreta to record a "soundtrack" to the book: Sacred Hearts, Secret Music. The album features the music of Giovanni Palestrina and ...
A British historical novelist recently revealed she chose to give birth to her two children without pain relief to better understand the suffering women endured for centuries. Sarah Dunant, 75, said ...
Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Sarah Dunant has managed to do what many British authors only dream about. She has conquered the world's largest English-speaking ...
JUDGING by the title of this book, one might be inclined to think that it is nothing more than the story of Henri Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross. Happily, Mr. Gumpert’s volume covers a greater ...
In a major square in downtown Geneva are two dominant symbols of today’s representation. In the middle of Geneva’s cultural center, La Place de Neuve, stands an imposing statue of a soldier on ...
Google and French telecommunications company Orange have announced a partnership where the two companies will be launching the Dunant Transatlantic undersea cable in 2020. The Dunant is one out of ...
Expected to be operational by late 2020, the Dunant cable, named after Red Cross Founder Henry Dunant, will extend from Virginia Beach to the French Atlantic coast. I'm PCMag's managing editor for ...
What inspired realpolitik bare-knuckler Niccolo Machiavelli to compose his 16th century masterwork, The Prince? The real question might not be what, but whom? Cesare Borgia stands as the best ...
Google has announced its Dunant submarine cable system has been deployed and tested and is now ready for service. Dunant is now the world's highest capacity submarine cable, with the company claiming ...