Other editions of book David: The Unauthorised Autobiography

The statue of David by Michelangelo has stood in Florence for over five hundred years but until now we have known nothing about the young man it was modelled on. Now Mary Hoffman has written the life of Gabriele, the young stonecutter, son of the sculptor's wet nurse, who walks in Florence in 1501, looking like that, and is immediately plunged into adventures involving politics, spying and coping with the man woman - and men - who are attracted to him.