Books by Lauro Martines

Moving between Florence and Chicago, this intriguing novel chronicles the fortunes and misfortunes, loyalties and tensions, of three generations of an Italian family, beginning in the 1950s. Each new generation brings with it new and passionate challenges, culminating in a sin so great it is hard to see how the family will ever recover.

In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family dramatically miscarried.