Vile Florentines

HOLME, Timothy

Cassell

No city state in history has been the setting for such fierce brutality and sheer driving creativity as was Florence from the mid-thirteenth to the mid-fourteenth centuries. It was a city every bit as vicious as ancient Rome, as lofty as Athens, as uninhibited as Sodom and Gomorrah. Poets, soldiers, artists, popes, courtesans - all played their part in Florence's towering tragi-comedy.This drama was reflected and depicted by three men of genius: Dante, politician and poet; Giotto, artist, architect and wit; and Boccaccio, adventurer and writer. Dante held high office at the time when Florence's affairs - bitterly chronicled in his Divine Comedy - were at their bloodiest and most violent, and tried, unavailingly and tragically, to divert the city's disaster course. Giotto, whose concerns were paint and stone rather than politics, never suffered from Florentine savagery - his life and work reflect rather the city's liberality, magnificence, comedy; its lavish way of life and its passionate love of art. But it is left to Boccaccio, youngest of the trio, standing on the threshold of the Renaissance, to reveal in The Decameron Florence's rampant sensuality, from the elegant and luxurious to the outrageously bawdy.Drawing on contemporary anecdotes, and later Italian writers, Timothy Holme has written an absorbing account of the men and women of medieval Florence, and in particular of the three giants, Dante, Giotto and Boccaccio. Very different in temperament, their fortunes were closely entwined; Dante wrote of Giotto; Boccaccio hero-worshipped Dante; Giotto painted Dante; Boccaccio portrayed Giotto in his Decameron. And all three were involved in that extraordinary, turbulent city - the Florence of the Middle Ages.

Vile Florentines: The Florence of Dante, Giotto, and Boccoccio

St.Martin's Press

A Funeral of Gondolas

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Macmillan

The Assisi Murders

Inspector Peroni is glad to be done with Verona, but he?s none too thrilled with Venice. The cuisine is an endless parade of soup, and the crime is as bland as the menu. The most nefarious crime Peroni?s supervisors can come up with is a gambling ring involving the city?s annual gondola race, and not only is it run by a local priest, but the proceeds go to charity. That?s no way for a highly decorated, handsome police inspector to get into the newspapers. But Peroni perks up when the gambling gondoliers appear to have some connection with a murdered lawyer, a stolen manuscript, and a sance involving an 18th-century courtesan. Now that?s a crime worth solving!

Funeral of Gondolas

TBS The Book Service Ltd

Achille Peroni loves the spicy food and passionate arguments of southern Italy, land of his birth. But fate -- and the Italian police force -- have stuck him in Verona, a city of bean soup and endless problems with the Red Brigades, a vicious gang that relies on bombs and high-profile kidnappings to further its rather fuzzy political aims. When a wealthy general, head of one of Italy's finest Fascist families, goes missing from his palatial estate, the Reds are the most obvious suspects. But Peroni finds himself considering a crime far more subtle and sinister than anything the Reds can dream up. A crime, in fact, the leads all the way back to Romeo and Juliet, the most famous Vernoseses of them all.

The Neapolitan streak

Coward, McCann, Geoghegan

A funeral of gondolas

While visiting Assisi, Chief Inspector Peroni falls in love with a woman accussed of murdering her lover and Peroni's unauthorized investigation leads to revelations about a murder committed in 1230 A.D

Futura Publ.

Achille Peroni loves the spicy food and passionate arguments of southern Italy, land of his birth. But fate -- and the Italian police force -- have stuck him in Verona, a city of bean soup and endless problems with the Red Brigades, a vicious gang that relies on bombs and high-profile kidnappings to further its rather fuzzy political aims. When a wealthy general, head of one of Italy's finest Fascist families, goes missing from his palatial estate, the Reds are the most obvious suspects. But Peroni finds himself considering a crime far more subtle and sinister than anything the Reds can dream up. A crime, in fact, the leads all the way back to Romeo and Juliet, the most famous Vernoseses of them all.

The Neopolitan Streak

Little Brown Paperbacks (a&C)

In the course of his routine missing persons investigation, Inspector Achille Peroni discovers that the disappearance of a girl named Khezia is linked to a complex criminal plot involving the super rich and the cult of Satanism

Devil and the Dolce Vita

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Vile Florentines

Vile Florentines: The Florence of Dante, Giotto, and Boccoccio

A Funeral of Gondolas

The Assisi Murders

Funeral of Gondolas

The Neapolitan streak

A funeral of gondolas

The Assisi Murders

The Neopolitan Streak

Devil and the Dolce Vita