Secrecy
Subtitle: a novel
By: Rupert Thomson
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9781590516850; 9781590516867
Subjects: Fiction; History
Description: Zummo, a Sicilian sculptor, is summoned by Cosimo III to join the Medici court. Late seventeenth-century Florence is a hotbed of repression and hypocrisy. All forms of pleasure are brutally punished, and the Grand Duke himself, a man for whom marriage has been an exquisite torture, hides his pain beneath a show of excessive piety.
Notes: "Originally published in Great Britain by Granta Books 2013."