Even delightful flowers are born from dirt.

This is one of the many ballads of Dante De Luca. He is, at first glance, simply a poverty-stricken painter in a scruffy sweater and scuffed shoes. A nineteen-year-old boy full of youthful folly and fanciful ideas of love. Those things are true, but Dante has hidden depths that transcend the remarkable, abilities that soar in rampant boasts clear into the stratosphere, elevating him above others in a way almost inconceivable to the human brain.

Oh, and he has two hamsters.

This novelette adds tantalising detail to events prior to the start of the Painter Trilogy. It can be read as a standalone, before or after the trilogy's main events. The story is set in Naples, Italy, many years before mobile phones, Zoom or Uber.

Dante's Gift is suitable for readers 12+

Note: **This is a novelette of 13,000 words, not a full novel.**

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