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)

Times: 1737-1860