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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Enchantress of Florence is a novel by Salman Rushdie published in 2008. According to Rushdie this is his most researched book which required Years and years of reading . The novel was published on 11 April 2008 by Jonathan Cape London. The book relates a succession of interweaving stories by a variety of storytellers, travellers and adventurers and of course touches on the histories and cultures of the various settings including the Mughal and Ottoman Empires, the earlier Mongols, and Renaissance Florence. There is a strong theme of sex and eroticism, much of it surrounding the Enchantress of the book's title, who was inspired by the Renaissance poem Orlando Furioso. There is also a recurring discussion of humanism and debate as opposed to authoritarianism, and Machiavelli is a character in the book. Similarly to Rushdie's previous works, the book can be considered a work of magic realism.

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