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 (and the man who will one day write that exhaustive treatise on criminology, the Inferno), is on the case. It is his first official investigation. Obscure clues lead him up and down the streets of Florence, following a trail full of intrigue and mystery. Why have seven scholars, each a master of his art, assembled in the city? 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? Did it have to do with Antilia, wild and beautiful, who dances nightly in a tavern owned by a one-armed crusader? Or perhaps with another elusive Beatrice, the heiress to the imperial Swabian throne, whose rumored arrival in the city could upset the political aspirations of Pope Boniface, Dante’s nemesis? Leoni’s voice is wry and irreverent as he pokes fun at the genius poet and renders Dante a human being—brilliant but temperamental, bumbling but undaunted. An enthralling historical thriller from Italy’s new maestro of crime.

The Mosaic Crimes (A Dante Alighieri Mystery)

Literature & Fiction

Leoni, Giulio

Genre Fiction

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

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.

The Mosaic Crimes

Contemporary

Mariner Books

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Harcourt

For fans of Dan Brown's Inferno, a sensational Italian thriller starring Dante Alighieri as lead detective. Florence, 1291. In a disused church on the outskirts of the city the disfigured corpse of a master mosaic artist sits at the foot of his latest - unfinished - creation. Young, ambitious Dante Alighieri, Prior of the City, is sent out to investigate. He quickly discovers not only that the church hides secrets of its own, but that the murdered man was connected to a shadowy organisation known as the Third Heaven, an assorted band of scholars and adventurers whose influence could undermine the city's government - in favour of the all-powerful Catholic church and its brutal emissaries. Seeking to uncover the truth in the mosaic that was too dangerous to be told, Dante is drawn into a power struggle that leads him back into the secrets and myths of an ancient imperial dynasty - and into peril as the charms of a mysterious smoky-eyed dancer begin to blind his reason...

Third Heaven Conspiracy

HARVILL/SECKER

En la Florencia de comienzos del siglo XIV, desgarrada por los enfrentamientos civiles, el poeta Dante Alighieri, recién elegido prior de la ciudad, deberá resolver un terrible crimen que pondrá a prueba tanto su inteligencia como su fortaleza. Ambrogio, un maestro mosaiquista, ha sido asesinado con cal viva en lo alto de un andamio y frente a la obra en la que estaba trabajando: un magnífico mosaico para el templo donde, además, en esos momento se reúne un consejo de sabios convocado por el Papa Bonifacio. Dante intuirá que es precisamente en el enigmático mosaico inacabado donde están las claves para resolver el misterioso asesinato del artesano. En los días que siguen, el empeño cada vez más obsesivo del poeta por resolver el crimen le llevará a un periplo por todos los rincones de la ciudad, un peregrinaje que parece a la vez metáfora e inspiración de la Divina Comedia. Tras considerar todos los posibles secretos que el maestro asesinado podría haber intentado revelar con su obra, (algunos, referentes a la alquimia, otros, relacionados con el poder imperial) Dante descubrirá al fin lo que el maestro Ambrogio supo esconder tan bien entre las teselas de su mosaico.

Los Crimenes del Mosaico (Spanish Edition)

Suma de Letras]

El ritual de Orfeo (Spanish Edition)

Algaida Editores

Florença, agosto de 1300. Dante Alighieri, faltando poucas horas para o fim de seu mandato como prior da cidade, é chamado aos pântanos do rio Arno, onde foi encontrada uma galé encalhada. A bordo, centenas de cadáveres e os restos de um misterioso engenho. De onde veio essa embarcação com sua carga de horror? E por que, depois de algumas horas, é ferozmente assassinado o arquiteto do imperador Frederico II, criador de um castelo enigmático no meio do nada? Um fantasma parece emergir do passado: cinquenta anos antes, Frederico II, eternamente ávido de conhecimento, morreu no limiar de uma última e extraordinária descoberta. Dante tem pouco tempo: será suficiente para descobrir o assassino e interromper o rio de sangue que se alastra por Florença?

Os Crimes Da Luz

editora planeta

I Delitti Del Mosaico (Italian Edition)

I Delitti Del Mosaico

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

European Schoolbooks

Essays & Correspondence

Il testamento del papa

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