![]() So does Tulia Rose, with the successful publication of her Raffaello novel, For My Beloved. Although this story-within-a-story approach might have been confusing in lesser hands, Buonaguro and Kirk manage it beautifully. The sidewalk artist by Buonaguro, Gina Kirk, Janice. Inspired by him (and for a time suspicious of his motives), she begins writing a new novel, a tragic love story set in 16th-century Rome with the Italian master as its hero, while Raffaello Sanzio’s own fictional story plays out in alternating sections. Playfully, he declines to tell her his name, and so she calls him Raphael. Smarting from the poor reception given her first novel, estranged from her boyfriend and lonely, Tulia Rose is deeply drawn to the sidewalk artist, who is as handsome and kind as he is mysterious and full of magic tricks. She coauthored with Janice Kirk three previous historical novels, The Sidewalk Artist. ![]() Book cover for The Sidewalk Artist by Gina Buonaguro, Janice Kirk. THE VIRGINS OF VENICE is GINA BUONAGUROs first solo novel. To her, his street painting of Raffaello Sanzio’s angels seem inspired, as fresh as the day the Renaissance master painted them five hundred years before. A voracious reader and traveler, Gina Buonaguro received a BA in. In this debut novel, Gina Buonaguro and Janice Kirk weave a love story between Tulia Rose, a young, 21st century American writer and the sidewalk artist she meets in Paris. ![]()
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