![]() ![]() When Giulia's involvement with him ends with his murder, she's drawn into a treacherous web of espionage and deceit involving the forces of Rome, Naples, and a man known as Lorenzo the Magnificent. But the talismans are not what they seem, and neither is the Magician. ![]() She accepts the job and begins smuggling his talismans throughout the city. But his identity is secret-he is known only as the Magician of Florence-and he is in need of an assistant. The man claims to be a cabalist, a student of Jewish mysticism and ritual magic, who works for the most powerful families in Florence. Now, after spending two years as a successful pickpocket, an old man catches her about to make off with his purse, and rather than having her carted off to prison he offers her a business proposition. She chose neither, and after refusing an elderly suitor, Giulia escaped onto the streets of Florence. ![]() Raised in Florence's famous Ospedale degli Innocenti, her probing questions and insubordinate behavior made her an unwelcome presence, and at the age of fifteen, she was given an awful choice: become a nun, or be married off to a man she didn't love. ![]() In this irresistible historical novel set in the turbulent world of the Medicis, a young woman finds herself driven from pick-pocketing to espionage when she meets a mysterious man. ![]()
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