Shadow of the Lion
Автор:
Lackey MercedesЖанр:
Фэнтези;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-17Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
355
Lackey, Flint and Freer whip up a luscious bouillabaisse of politics, intrigue, love and black magic set in an 'Other-worldly, New-Age Venice.' Like the actual 16th-century city-state, the authors' Venice of the 1530s is a dangerous place, filled with as many illicit love affairs as murders. Garbage and occasional dead bodies float in the stinking canals. The city is also a target for would-be foreign conquerors: the Vatican, the Holy Roman Empire, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Poland, and the small city-state of Ferrara, ruled by Enrico Dell'este, who surreptitiously watches his grandsons, Marco and Benito, the story's water-rat heroes. Around Benito, a thief, and Marco, a canal doctor, swirl a host of characters, major and minor: the men and women who ply the gondolas and rafts; the...
