A Year in Florence

The next volume of the illustrated collection of works by Alexandre Dumas includes the Florentine duology «A Year in Florence» and «Villa Palmieri». This picturesque tapestry is woven from many stories and dramatic scenes of the distant and recent past of the Mediterranean. Marseille during the Terror, prisoners of the Château d'If, the nine mysteries of the Man in the Iron Mask, the revenge of the cunning Lorenzaccio, the fate of the beautiful Bianca Capello, the greatness and fall of the demigod and false prophet Savonarola, the poison of power and the bonfires of vanity, the palaces and huts of Italy and Provence on the way to the kingdom of flowers and daggers under the scorching sun of Tuscany.