Perspectives CAL A year after the book’s

A year after the book’s publication in 1943

One professor

shows the real reason why we’re here—no malarkey

clubs and major shops or entertainment options

a rebel-hearted eight-three-year-old from the next ward

Perspectives CAL A year after the book’sA brilliant reinvention of the detective novel, set in Renaissance Florence and packed with art, scandal, murder and scheming from the author of the international bestseller HHhH. Florence, New Year's Day 1557. As dawn breaks, a painter is discovered lying on the floor of a church, stabbed through the heart. Above him, the paintings he laboured over for more than a decade. At his home, a hidden painting scandalously depicting Maria de Medici, daughter