Title: Secrecy
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.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Italy, fiction, Fiction, historical, Historical fiction
Places: Florence (Italy)
Time periods: 1737-1860