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Aly, Michelangelo's Son: A Moorish Slave Turned Artist, Lover, Conspirator... Assassin by Peter Merlin Cane [Cane, Peter Merlin] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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In 2012, the image of an African slave boy was found hidden in the shadows on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, together with a note saying he was Michelangelo's clandestine son. Ghost-writing the boys autobiography, Peter Cane plunges us into a deeply researched, and hitherto unknown world that interweaves art, secret inscriptions, religion, ancient myths and the hidden mischief of language. Trusted history is overturned, our ideas of the difference between fact and fiction challenged, and sinister perils are revealed that we all wander blindly through day by day. As he introduces his story, the main character of this intelligent thriller immediately throws down the gauntlet to the great authors of the genre such as Dan Brown, Bernard Cornwell and Philippa Gregory A new voice has been born. What is life for? Aly writes, Can you tell me? If you can, alas, its too late. Im old, and being tracked by assassins. All I can do now is to try to finish this, my tale, before they find me. By the time you read it, though, they will have done their work, so it is in you that my legacy lies, and it is for you that Im writing. Im not the one in danger now you are, and those you love. The dang
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Peter Merlin Cane [Cane, Peter Merlin]
- Publisher
- Wavecrest Art Publishing, Mississauga, Canada
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780995949706
- Category
- nonfiction
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