Renaissance Brides

An Italian family saga. The late 1500s and early 1600s may have been a time of elegant romance, the rise of artistic evolution, and one of the richest cultural landscapes ever, but in Italy, life, love, and even survival are anything but simple. Amidst the struggles of class separation, plague, duels, revolts, and tyranny, the lives of four families intertwine. The Chaplains, Bilivertis, Marinellis, and Maseos become their own timeline of romance and family ties. Françoise Chaplain is wounded almost too deeply to grasp the proposed love of Stefano Marinelli. Bianca Marinelli seeks an…