The Three Deaths of Giovanni Fumiani
Hantover, Jeffrey
Fumiani is dead...again.
In 1706, the artist Giovanni Fumiani fell to his death while painting the immense ceiling of Venice's San Pantalon. When he turns up dead again four years later, the parish priest asks Stefano Bigio, an impoverished nobleman, to unravel the circumstances of the artist's deaths and disappearance. So begins a journey into the corrupt underbelly of the dying Republic of Venice. Lies, murder, and the ambition of the power...
