A melancholy young Jewish gem merchant, Abraham, born in Venice, has lived his life behind the ghetto walls of that damp, oppressive city. He has lost a wife and the son whose difficult birth killed her. Now there is nothing left for him there. I...
Fumiani is dead...again.In 1706, the artist Giovanni Fumiani fell to his death while painting the immense ceiling of Venice's San Pantalon. When he turns up dead again four years later, the parish priest asks Stefano Bigio, an impoverished nobleman, ...
When given the choice between love and honor, what are you willing to sacrifice? Destiny, longing and betrayal await you in this sweeping historical novel set in Elizabethan England and the Ottoman Empire of the late 16th century.England, 1591. Eager...