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Rita Monaldi & Francesco Sorti
Rita Monaldi was born in 1966 and is an expert in the history of religions. Her husband Francesco Sorti was born in 1964 and has a background in musicology. Both Rita and Francesco have worked as journalists, but in recent years they have collaborated on several historical novels including Imprimatur and its sequels Secretum and Veritas. They live with their two young children in Vienna and Rome.
Extract from Imprimatur, the International Bestseller
02 June 08
A thrilling new historical novel from Italian authors, Rita Monaldi and Francesco Sorti.
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Imprimatur
ISBN: 9781846971051
Category: Fiction
Author: Rita Monaldi & Francesco Sorti
Publication Date: April 2009
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
11 September 1683, Rome. Rome is a city on a knife-edge. Among this detained in the Locanda Donzello is the mysterious Atto Melani, a spy in the service of the French king. With the help of the young serving boy, he discovers a secret passage leading to a network of tunnels under the city.
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Imprimatur
ISBN: 9781846970764
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Rita Monaldi & Francesco Sorti
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: HB
Price: £16.99
Stock Status: in stock
A thriller in the vein of Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, this novel contains startling revelations that have been concealed for centuries, drawing on original papers discovered in the Vatican archives. First published to great controversy in Italy in 2002, Imprimatur was boycotted by the Italian press and publishing world. Despite this, the novel has gained European bestseller status.
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Secretum
ISBN: 9781846971464
Category: Fiction
Author: Rita Monaldi & Francesco Sorti
Publication Date: June 2010
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
July, 1700, Rome. Atto Melani mingles with other high-ranking guests at the villa of Cardinal Spada. Despite being there to celebrate the Cardinal’s nephew’s wedding, the main topic of conversation is the grave illness of the Pope and the approaching demise of Charles II. Melani, keen to see the French king ascend the Spanish throne, sets in motion a grandiose conspiracy that will plunge him into a world of secret languages, religious sects, forged Royal wills and Europe into war.
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Secretum
ISBN: 9781846971044
Category: Fiction
Author: Rita Monaldi & Francesco Sorti
Publication Date: July 2009
Format: HB
Price:
Stock Status: in stock
July, 1700, Rome. Atto Melani mingles with other high-ranking guests at the villa of Cardinal Spada. Despite being there to celebrate the Cardinal’s nephew’s wedding, the main topic of conversation is the grave illness of the Pope and the approaching demise of Charles II. Melani, keen to see the French king ascend the Spanish throne, sets in motion a grandiose conspiracy that will plunge him into a world of secret languages, religious sects, forged Royal wills and Europe into war.
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