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My name is Alyssa Palombo, and I am a writer living and working in Buffalo, NY. I attended Canisius College in Buffalo, where I majored in English and creative writing with a minor in music. I’m a classically trained mezzo-soprano who also dabbles in playing piano. When not writing, I can usually be found reading, hanging out and laughing way too hard at nonsensical inside jokes with friends, traveling (or dreaming of my next travel destination), at a concert, or planning for next Halloween. I’m a metalhead and a self-proclaimed French fry connoisseur. I also own way too many hoodies, pairs of sunglasses, and pajamas, but never enough books.

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	The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel: A Story of Sleepy Hollow 3.65 avg rating — 4,107 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Violinist of Venice 4.04 avg rating — 1,773 ratings — published 2015 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence: A Story of Botticelli 3.82 avg rating — 1,477 ratings — published 2017 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Borgia Confessions 3.80 avg rating — 943 ratings — published 2020 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Assassin of Venice 3.67 avg rating — 477 ratings — published 2024 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“What is it about beauty, I wondered one day, squinting at a bit of embroidery, which makes men think they have the right to desire you? That beauty means you automatically agree, somehow, to be coveted, to be desired? That your beauty belongs to everyone?”
― Alyssa Palombo, The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence: A Story of Botticelli

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“We had heard of this modern wonder in Genoa, of course, but seeing it in person was an entirely different matter. The dome was egg-shaped, and had been finished with reddish tiles beneath the great white ribs of its supports. A cross sat at the very top, blessing those who beheld it from below as well as pointing upward into the heavens. As I gazed upon it, I marveled that so great a structure could stay upright without collapsing in on itself. It seemed a frightening thing, that lowly mankind had dared to build something that ascended so close to God.”
― Alyssa Palombo, The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence: A Story of Botticelli

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“I followed the two men to the door of the chapel, but before I left I felt my eyes drawn back tot the altarpiece again, and to the face of the woman so beautiful she had made a man forswear his vow to God. Was such beauty a gift or a curse?”
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October BoTM Nominations ~ Historical Fiction ~ 1st Poll
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Flags on the Bayou

by James Lee Burke

3 votes, 17.6%

The Antidote

by Karen Russell

3 votes, 17.6%

The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel: A Story of Sleepy Hollow

by Alyssa Palombo

3 votes, 17.6%

The Home for Unwanted Girls

by Joanna Goodman

2 votes, 11.8%

The Rules of Magic

by Alice Hoffman

2 votes, 11.8%

Becoming Madam Secretary

by Stephanie Dray

2 votes, 11.8%

The Glassmaker

by Tracy Chevalier

1 vote, 5.9%

The History of Sound

by Ben Shattuck

1 vote, 5.9%

The Forty Elephants

by Erin Bledsoe

0 votes, 0.0%

The Great Divide

by Cristina Henríquez

0 votes, 0.0%

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