The virgin knows
By: Christine Palamidessi Moore.
Edition: first
Publisher: Wyatt Book for St. Martin's Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Copyright date: July 1995
Subjects: Italians -- Massachusetts -- Fiction.; Young women -- Fiction.; Art thefts -- Fiction.; Twins -- Fiction.; Rome (Italy) -- Fiction.; Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.; Vatican City -- Fiction.
Genres: literary art theft thriller
First sentence: During the years we were apart, my brother Carol became a king on Hanover Street in the North End of Boston.
Description: In Rome,on May 12,1972, crazy Lazlo Toth climbed over a guardrail onto Michelangelo’s Pietà and battered a hammer at the statue. “I am Jesus Christ!” he shouted. Carlo Barzini, a merchant from Boston’s North End, happened to be there. He snapped a picture, picked up a fragment of the statue’s nose, and sneaked out of the chapel. His actions set off an art theft escapade that connected Boston’s prestigious museums to the Vatican’s coffers.