Metty is swiftly hidden away by her father

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In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel Teen & Young Adult Dystopian Metty is swiftly hidden awayMy lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperors army blew a hole in the wall of Gods eternal city, letting in a flood of half starved, half crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment. Thus begins In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunants epic novel of life in Renaissance Italy. Escaping the sack of Rome in 1527, with their stomachs churning on the