Pierdomenico Baccalario

The Mercury Mysteries. Giorgione: The Tempest – vol. 1

Adventure

Arts

Mystery

A fun and exciting novel set around one of the most mysterious works of the Italian Renaissance.

In a dark room at the Palatine Gallery, the raven Mercury gives Nina, Jamal, and Lorenzo a scroll with a dark enigma. When a lightning bolt splits the sky, the three friends find themselves lost in the Venetian countryside, in a very distant time. Nearby is Giorgione’s farmhouse, but the famous painter has disappeared. Among angry merchants, dangerous soldiers, and other sinister threats, the three friends must find the artist and uncover his secret before they can return to Florence.

The three protagonists will travel back in time to meet the greatest painters and sculptors of all time, and will have to solve dark mysteries before they can return home.
Intrigue, hidden dangers and plot twists and, of course, a little bit of humour.

Publisher: Emons

Target: 10+

Year: 2020

Author

Pierdomenico Baccalario

Pierdomenico Baccalario has been writing children’s novels since 1997, when he won the Il Battello a Vapore literary prize with La strada del Guerriero (The Way of the Warrior) using his neighbour’s name. Since then, his bestsellers have been written under as many pseudonyms (the best known being Ulysses Moore and Irene Adler), translated into more than thirty languages and published with major Italian and foreign publishers. He has collaborated with Lucca Comics & Games for more than twenty years, has written for Repubblica and is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura literary supplement. In 2014, he founded the Book on a Tree creative agency in London.

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