Venetian Contract, Paperback/Marina Fiorato

From the author of }The Glassblower Of Murano{ and }Daughter Of Siena{. Set in Venice in 1576, during a time when the plague reached the city from Constantinople. In despair, the Doge commissions architect Andrea Palladio to build the greatest church of his career, an offering to God so magnificent that Venice will be saved. But is it enough?