Pasquale's Angel

Download or read book Pasquale's Angel written by Paul McAuley and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florence in the year 1518 is riven by scientific and sociological change caused b the wonderful devices of the Great Engineer, Leonardo da Vinci. Now he is old and lives as a recluse working behind the walls of his castle. The Raphaelites, artists and anti-technologists led by Raphael of Urbino, call for his excommunication. Pasquale di Cione fiesole, an apprentice painter witnesses an assassination attempt on Raphael at a Cathedral service. The weapon falls into his hands, and he is soon on the run from engineers and artists, desperate to prove his innocence.