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The Mosaic Crimes
by Giulio Leoni
A Dante Alighieri Mystery
| Florence, June 1300.
The body of an artist, his face covered in
quicklime, is discovered next to the mosaic he had almost completed.
Dante Alighieri, the newly appointed prior of the city of Florence who
will one day author the Inferno, is on the case in his first official
investigation. Obscure clues lead him on a trail full of intrigue. What
was the secret that might have been revealed had the artist lived to
complete his work? Was it an alchemist’s formula to transform lead into
gold? Or the identity of an heiress to the Swabian throne, whose
rumored arrival could upset the political aspirations of Pope Boniface,
Dante’s nemesis? Soon Dante comes to know the learned men who make up
the so-called Third Heaven. Scholars of various disciplines, they
appear to be increasingly linked to the mosaicist’s murder and the
corrupt underbelly of the respected, cultured city of Florence. |
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