01/04/2026
✨Join Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Dunant as she turns her discerning eye to a pivotal moment in history through the voice of one of its most compelling yet, until now, lesser-known characters – the foremost, and greatest, female art collector and patron of the Renaissance, the Marchioness of Mantua, Isabella D’Este. Sarah has used thousands of her letters which she has masterfully woven into this story of a powerful and flamboyant woman who refuses to be bound by the conventions of her age.
Sarah Dunant is a historical novelist, thriller writer, broadcaster and lecturer on women’s lives in Renaissance Italy. Her most recent six novels, set within the Italian Renaissance and weaving cutting-edge historical scholarship into fiction, have become international bestsellers, translated into thirty languages.
🎟️ Tickets: £20 for members, £25 non-members.
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🧑💻Event also available online!
Price include: talk, followed by Q&Q, and drinks reception 🥂