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Description for The Tower
Paperback. Partly a thoroughly researched historical novel about the Inquisition and the birth of science, partly a technological thriller dealing with the topical issues of digitization, mass control and espionage. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Amman, Jordan. As an ambitious digitization project gathers pace in a vast building outside Amman, some unpublished writings by Giordano Bruno - flawed genius of the late Renaissance, renegade philosopher, occultist with a prodigious memory - disappear together with the Jesuit priest sent by the Vatican to study them. When the priest is found dead and a series of mysterious threats ensues, it becomes clear that the stakes are high for all the parties openly or covertly involved. What dangerous ideas were contained in the stolen manuscript? What was the ultimate secret that Bruno tried to hide, ... Read more
Amman, Jordan. As an ambitious digitization project gathers pace in a vast building outside Amman, some unpublished writings by Giordano Bruno - flawed genius of the late Renaissance, renegade philosopher, occultist with a prodigious memory - disappear together with the Jesuit priest sent by the Vatican to study them. When the priest is found dead and a series of mysterious threats ensues, it becomes clear that the stakes are high for all the parties openly or covertly involved. What dangerous ideas were contained in the stolen manuscript? What was the ultimate secret that Bruno tried to hide, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Alma Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
Surrey, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846883767
SKU
V9781846883767
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Ref
99-50
About Alessandro Gallenzi
Alessandro Gallenzi is the founder of Hesperus Press, Alma Books and Alma Classics, and the successor of John Calder at the helm of Calder Publications. As well as being a literary publisher with almost ten years of experience, he is a translator, a poet, a playwright and a novelist. He wrote Bestseller ... Read more
Reviews for The Tower
[Alessandro Gallenzi] has done much assiduous and scholarly research... He is the thinking person's Dan Brown
The Tablet
A brilliantly gripping, clever thriller.
Sarah Broadhurst
Lovereading
The author takes us through two exciting journeys; one during the late Renaissance as we follow Giordano Bruno's fall, and the other in the modern digital era, which will ... Read more
The Tablet
A brilliantly gripping, clever thriller.
Sarah Broadhurst
Lovereading
The author takes us through two exciting journeys; one during the late Renaissance as we follow Giordano Bruno's fall, and the other in the modern digital era, which will ... Read more