![]() Pope Alexander VI) into investigating the murder of Rodrigo's beloved son (and the father of Damiata's child) Juan. ![]() The Malice of Fortune Michael EnnisAnchor, 2013 The Malice of Fortune, the third historical novel from Michael Ennis (after The Duchess of Milan and Byzantium, both very much worth the time and attention required to find and read them), is now issued in an attractive paperback from Anchor, and the book's premise is mighty attractive too: take two of the Italian Renaissance's most famous names - Niccolo Machiavelli and Leonardo Da Vinci - and put them in the same book, solving an ingenious series of crimes.Such is the rough setting of The Malice of Fortune, which opens in the year 1502, when an intelligent and experienced courtesan named Damiata is blackmailed by Rodrigo Borgia (i.e. ![]()
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