A VAMPIRE IN THE ITALIAN AGE OF GOLD... Sixteen years old Vittorio is the sole survivor of a bizarre & violent massacre at his father's Tuscan palazzo. Escaping to the Florence of Cosimo de Medici he seeks vengeance & retribution. But though he has been saved from death by a mysterious woman he finds himself at the mercy of demonic bloody nightmares war & political intrique. & beyond even these perils Vittorio faces being torn apart by a dangerous love. Against a backdrop of the wonders
- both sacred & profane
- of Rennaisance Italy with it's art & ferocity angels & demons Anne Rice introduces a seductive new character & creates a passionate traggic legend of doomed young love & lost innocence.