The Malice of Fortune
A Novel
by Michael Ennis
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Pub Date Sep 11 2012 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Description
Against a teeming canvas of Borgia politics, Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci come together to unmask an enigmatic serial killer, as we learn the secret history behind one of the most controversial works in the western canon, The Prince...
When Pope Alexander
dispatches a Vatican courtesan, Damiata, to the remote fortress city of
Imola to learn the truth behind the murder of Juan, his most beloved
illegitimate son, she cannot fail, for the scheming Borgia pope holds
her own young son hostage. Once there, Damiata becomes a pawn in the
political intrigues of the pope’s surviving son, the charismatic Duke
Valentino, whose own life is threatened by the condottieri, a powerful cabal of mercenary warlords. Damiata suspects that the killer she seeks is one of the brutal condottierri,
and as the murders multiply, her quest grows more urgent. She enlists
the help of an obscure Florentine diplomat, Niccolò Machiavelli, and
Valentino’s eccentric military engineer, Leonardo da Vinci, who together
must struggle to decipher the killer’s taunting riddles: Leonardo with
his groundbreaking “science of observation” and Machiavelli with his new
“science of men.” Traveling across an Italy torn apart by war, they
will enter a labyrinth of ancient superstition and erotic obsession to
discover at its center a new face of evil—and a truth that will shake
the foundations of western civilization.
Available Editions
EDITION | Hardcover |
ISBN | 9780385536318 |
PRICE | $26.95 (USD) |
PAGES | 416 |