Sandro Botticelli is one of the greatest masters of the Italian Renaissance, whose creations amaze with the combination of unsurpassed elegance of form with philosophical depth of content. Behind the magical lightness of “Spring” and “Birth of Venus” is hidden the difficult life of the artist, full of creative quests, hopes and disappointments. The author of a new biography of Botticelli St.V. Zarnitsky, based on the few surviving sources, paints a picture of the life of his hero against the backdrop of the turbulent events of the history of Italy in the second half of the 15th century. This book will be useful not only to connoisseurs of Italian art, but also to all those who are not indifferent to the paintings of the great Florentine.