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Against a teeming canvas of Borgia politics, Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci come together to unmask an enigmatic serial killer, once we learn the secret history behind one of the very most questionable works in the traditional western cannon, The Prince.... When Pope Alexander dispatches a Vatican courtesan, Damiata, to the remote fortress city of Imola to learn the truth behind the murder of Juan, his most beloved illegitimate son, she cannot are unsuccessful, for the scheming Borgia pope keeps her own young son hostage. Once there, Damiata becomes a pawn in the politics intrigues of the pope's making it through son, the charismatic Duke Valentino, whose own life is threatened by the condottieri, a powerful cabal of mercenary warlords. Damiata suspects that the killer she looks for is one of the brutal condottierri, so that as the murders multiply, her pursuit grows more immediate. She enlists the help associated with an obscure Florentine diplomat, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Valentino's eccentric armed forces engineer, Leonardo da Vinci, who mutually must struggle to decipher the killer's taunting riddles: Leonardo with his groundbreaking "science of observation" and Machiavelli with his new "science of men". Vacationing across an Italy torn apart by war, they will type in a labyrinth of historic superstition and erotic obsession to find at its centre a new face of evil - and a real truth that will tremble the foundations of traditional western civilization.
