Sunday, January 20, 2019

1/21/19 - 9:45am pst - Award-winning author Linda Cardillo joined host Janeane Bernstein

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR WRITES MICHELANGELO’S LOVE IN NEW HISTORICAL FICTION LISTEN to today's conversation with Linda Cardillo!

Longmeadow, MA –Award-winning author Linda Cardillo takes readers into the heart of turbulent 16th-century Italy in “Love That Moves the Sun: Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo Buonarroti.” Vittoria Colonna is a celebrated poet; dutiful daughter; adoring, yet betrayed, wife; powerful political voice; spiritual seeker and suspected heretic. She is also the only woman Michelangelo ever loved. Vittoria, whose longing is buried beneath her grief, ignites the spirit of the artist Michelangelo and challenges him with both the profound terror and fierce beauty of love.


Linda Cardillo is an award-winning author who writes about the old country and the new, the tangle and embrace of family, and finding courage in the midst of loss. Hailed by Publishers Weekly as a “Fresh Face,” Linda has authored nine books, including “The Boat House Café,” winner of a Goethe Award, and the Maggie Award-winning “Dancing on Sunday Afternoons.”






“Love That Moves the Sun: Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo Buonarroti”

In an interview, Linda Cardillo discusses:


Why, as a Harvard Business School graduate, she “colors outside the lines” by pursuing a career as a novelist


Her 3-year-long research process in creating “Love That Moves the Sun”


The unique story behind the book’s cover art


Her background as the granddaughter of immigrants, and how her experiences inspire her writing



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Linda Cardillo is an award-winning author who writes about the old country and the new, the tangle and embrace of family, and finding courage in the midst of loss. Hailed by Publishers Weekly as a “Fresh Face,” Linda has authored nine books, including “The Boat House Café,” winner of a Goethe Award, and the Maggie Award-winning “Dancing on Sunday Afternoons.”

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