Pasquale's Angel
Author | : Paul McAuley |
Publisher | : Gateway |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2010-12-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780575088375 |
ISBN-13 | : 0575088370 |
Rating | : 4/5 (370 Downloads) |
Download or read book Pasquale's Angel written by Paul McAuley and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florence in the year 1518 is riven by scientific and sociological change caused b the wonderful devices of the Great Engineer, Leonardo da Vinci. Now he is old and lives as a recluse working behind the walls of his castle. The Raphaelites, artists and anti-technologists led by Raphael of Urbino, call for his excommunication. Pasquale di Cione fiesole, an apprentice painter witnesses an assassination attempt on Raphael at a Cathedral service. The weapon falls into his hands, and he is soon on the run from engineers and artists, desperate to prove his innocence.