Editorial Abstract: In the middle writing The Divine Comedy, Dante reluctantly accepts the post of ambassador to the Vatican city of Florence. Just arrived in Rome, the poet is confronted with a series of disturbing events: eviscerated prostitutes floating in the Tiber River, a mysterious sarcophagus unearthed in Castel Sant Angelo ... The holy city would have become the playground of practice for the less wild? What dark secret link between these cases? Forced to abandon his coat as a diplomat, the poet begins a dangerous crusade, plots and machinations which lurk in the ominous shadow of the Inquisition ...
An Unusually, this new volume of the Great Detective at 10/18 is fairly settled. I mean, it's not really a police investigation in itself, but a pretext survey that serves as the backdrop for a reconstruction of the Rome of the early fourteenth century driven by none other than Dante, the main character, and become an investigator to boot. Clearly, a thriller like Dark Crusade suffers compared with The Name of the Rose , who is also running in the early fourteenth century in Italy ... it still leaves much to read because the layout of Rome in the late Middle Ages is quite convincing. But for lovers of well-conducted survey, go your way, especially since reading requires a good knowledge of the poet's work, which the author often refers and which he specializes. The whole gives an impression of draft: not only the author focuses more on the historical aspect as on the plot, but otherwise it is lost among additional scenes that intersect the main guiding principle of crimes and their resolution. In short, can do better.
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