Secrecy
A Italy, Mystery, Art book. Perhaps there comes a time in your life when you lose the ability to command attention, when the world starts...
It is Florence, 1691. The Renaissance is long gone, and the city is a dark, repressive place, where everything is forbidden and anything is possible. The Enlightenment may be just around the corner, but knowledge is still the property of the few, and they guard it fiercely. Art, sex and power - these, as always, are the obsessions.Facing serious criminal charges, Gaetano Zummo is forced to flee his native Siracusa at the age of twenty, first to Palermo, then Naples, but always has the feeling that he is being pursued by his past, and that he will never be free of it. Zummo works an artist in wax. He is fascinated by the plague, and makes small wooden cabinets in which he places graphic, tortured models of the dead and dying. But Cosimo III, Tuscany's penultimate Medici ruler, gives Zummo his most challenging commission yet, and as he tackles it his path entwines with that of the apothecary's daughter Faustina,...
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- Pages: 320 pages
- ISBN: 9781847087652 / 1847087655
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Perhaps there comes a time in your life when you lose the ability to command attention, when the world starts to ignore you because it no longer believes you can have much of an effect on it. With Rupert Thomson, Secrecy //
I couldn't read this book fast enough! I love reading about Italy, and my favorite city in Italy is Florence. I'm also a big fan of Historical Fiction so there was no doubt in my mind that I would like this book. I cared for the characters and I loved the way the author slowly told us the back story of Zummo and Faustina. I was sad... This is an ARC that I received from the publisher, Other Press from a Facebook giveaway. It came wrapped in brown paper and sealed with wax which was very cool. This book really was a 3 1/2 star read. This is the story of Zummo, an Italian was sculptor who has found his way to Florence in the early 1700s. He is working for the Grand... A stunning, powerful and bloodcurdling book. It is set in Florence, at the end of the seventeenth century, a time at which the de Medici's still flourished. Florence was in the grip of the Dominican inquisition. In order to survive in this dark period you would have to be careful to make no enemies within higher circles. Jesuits and...
