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Plastic Surgery in the Renaissance & Bernini’s Beloved

I’m working on a series of scenes in my novel about the great Renaissance sculptor Bernini and his mistress, Costanza, wife of one of his assistants in Bernini’s busy sculpture studio. Bernini had his servant slash Costanza’s lovely face after discovering she had slept with his brother. I found it hard to get into the mind of a character who could do such a thing, so I delved into the story of Costanza and the…

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