Pasquale's Angel
- ISBN-10
- 0575088370
- ISBN-13
- 9780575088375
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-12-30
- Publisher
- Gateway
- Author
- Paul McAuley
Description
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.
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