Description

Will background and period slide into darkness, once the destiny of sides rests on changing loyalties and the vagaries of the human heart? 1515 Venice, a city of art, commerce and music, rich, selfish, whose rulers participate as merely an expansion of commerce in battle by other means. Cosimo de' Medici, capo of an old family with unusual energy, leader of Florence, producer of kings and popes, with strategies and ideas, orchestrating and planning whilst the Holy Roman Empire stands set to alter the facial skin of the region, and also the planet. Three siblings with unusual presents: Stefano, Antonio and Nicolo de' Medici, Veluria: an operative of the Sisterhood and Andreas, a cleric in the contending Authority--visitors out of time and out of position--bother a disorderly darkness world where information is power.