Circle of the Sky by Richard Cheney [historic fiction]
A lonely, unknown and unseasoned sculptor, struggling for recognition, even from his own father, goes to live in the household of a generous and cultured patron. In the course of elevating his art, he struggles against the opportunity to develop a relationship with a young woman who competes for his favor while he pursues the favor of his art. She, though coincidentally in the same household, lives echelons above his station, a true debutante coming of age. The young woman, barely three years his junior, radiant beyond her age and the daughter of a duke, chanced a glimpse at the artist at work, covered in marble dust, working the marble that was submissive to his every stroke even though he is but a teenager of sixteen. She is thrilled. He, turning to her interruption, is smitten by her radiance. So begins an unlikely but often repeated tale of crossed stars. Those stars would, in time, turn full circle for them. The reluctant lovers, likewise, complete a circle of such circumference, it will occupy lifetimes to achieve. She was the lovely Contessina de' Medici and he was Michelangelo.
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