![]() ![]() She suspects he is the pope’s spy only to find later that he is an envoy from Florence. And thereby hangs a tale…”ĭamiana’s first encounter with Machiavelli is casual she sees him leading a mule in front of their lodging. What history fails to tell us is how and why they did it. All of the major characters are historical figures, and all of them do exactly what the archival evidence tells us they did, exactly where and when they did it. Holding her young son hostage to her results, he sends her to Imola to investigate the murder and find the link to his son’s.Įnnis sets the context with an opening epigraph: “The following narrative is based entirely on actual events. The pope has long thought that Damiata, a high-level courtesan, knows more than she admits about the duke’s murder. Her body quartered and head removed, it is impossible to establish her identity. Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) reopens the investigation into his son’s murder after receiving the duke’s amulet, which has been recovered from a murder victim. A Borgia, grieving the murder of his favorite son, occupies the Holy See the Duke of Gandia’s killer remains a mystery.Īuthor Michael Ennis imagines the investigation of this very cold case over the final weeks of 1503, helped along by the likes of Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci. “The Malice of Fortune” is woven into a galvanizing era, the Italian Renaissance, where intrigue, politics and science are in full flower. ![]() Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu ![]()
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