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Scarpia Hardback - 2016

by Piers Paul Read

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It is the late 18th century and Sicilian nobleman Vitello Scarpia finds himself penniless and in disgrace on the streets of Rome. After leaving his home in pursuit of a military career, his fiery passion has seen him expelled from the Spanish royal guard and left to seek his fortune in Italy; a fortune inseparably bound to the Pope, whose rule is put in question by the French Revolution.

Scarpia enrolls in the papal army and is soon taken up by a countess eager to have a handsome young officer at her side. She introduces Scarpia into Roman society, and he is both enthralled and agitated by its mix of religiosity, sophistication, decadence, and intrigue. Then, on a mission to Venice, he meets the gifted, beautiful singer Floria Tosca. And as the armies of revolutionary France advance into Italy, and war and revolution engulf the whole peninsula, these two lives become entwined.

Steeped in factual detail and exploring the lives--part historical, part fictional--of figures from Puccini's famous opera, Scarpia shines a light into dusty corridors of history and dark corners of the human soul.

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  • Title Scarpia
  • Author Piers Paul Read
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Printing
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury USA, NY
  • Publication date 2016-03
  • Features Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9781632863249 / 1632863243
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.3 in (23.62 x 15.75 x 3.30 cm)
  • Category Fiction - Historical
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Vatican City
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.914

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  • Booklist, 11/15/2015, Page 30
  • Kirkus Reviews, 01/01/2016, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 12/01/2015, Page 96
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/11/2016, Page 0

About the author

Piers Paul Read is best known for his #1 New York Times bestselling book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, which documented the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 and was later adapted into a film. He has written sixteen novels for which his prizes include a Hawthornden Prize, Somerset Maugham Award, and a James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Most recently he published The Dreyfus Affair, a compelling nonfiction account of the high-profile French case. He lives in London.
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