FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, NOVEMBER 2003
Copyright © 2002 by James McKean
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. First published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2002.
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Doubleday edition as follows:
McKean, James N.
Quattrocento : a novel / James McKean.—1st ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-1-4000-7591-1
1. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction. 2. Art restorers—Fiction. 3. Time travel—Fiction. 4. New York (N.Y.)—Fiction. 5. Tuscany (Italy)—History—1434–1737—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3613.C55 Q38 2002
813′.6—dc21 2002512614
Author photograph © Chia Messina
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