Dante's Secret Book

9 hrs. 51 min.

Language Russian

Author Francesco Fioretti

Narrator Nadezhda Vinokurova

Description

For the first time in Russian, “Dante’s Secret Book,” the novel by Francesco Fioretti—representative of a new generation in Italian literature, one of the heirs of Umberto Eco.
Did Dante die of a fatal illness, as everyone in Ravenna believed? Or did someone have reasons to want his death—for the secret that did not belong to him to disappear along with him? Tormented by doubts, the poet’s daughter Antonia, the former Templar named Bernard, and the doctor Giovanni, who arrived from Lucca to see the poet, begin a double investigation. They find tables hidden in a cache and try to decipher the encoded message left by Dante. Meanwhile it becomes clear that far from everyone regarded the poet with admiration. But who exactly hated him so much that they sent hired killers? And what connects the cipher of the last songs of the “Divine Comedy” with the secret of the Ark of the Covenant?