Renaissance
Adventure & Passion
. . . Lorenzo Demarco, his mother would have him be a priest, his father wanted him to be an artist; he would try both but be neither. Relying on agility, wits and guile, Lorenzo would fight, love, and live his way into the lives of the famous – Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Machiavelli – and the infamous – Savonarola and Tommaso Bramante – in this epic tale set in Florence Italy at the height of the Italian Renaissance. Lorenzo finds adventure with his best friend – a German mercenary, Johann Holper. “Back-to-back, Johann and I fought the enemy, ‘Well, you wanted to engage the enemy in a great battle in a combat to the death,’ I barked over my shoulder. ‘Yes, I did,’ Johann shouted back. ‘Glorious isn’t it.’” He pursues passion with his first love – a Florentine seductress, Giovanna Vasari. “‘Have you ever been out there in the countryside and seen the wolves?’ asked Giovanna pointing away from the city. ‘They have such beautiful gray-blue eyes, just like yours, Lorenzo, wolf eyes.’”
. . . Join Lorenzo – sometime painter, monastic student, soldier, officer, statesman, interpreter, writer, son, brother, uncle, father, lover, husband, and friend – as he fulfills the old proverbs: May you live in interesting times; and careful what you wish for, you just might get it.