The Mercury Mysteries. Giotto: Rise Up To The Stars – vol. 4

Adventure
Arts
Mystery

An exciting adventure, discovering the most revolutionary characters of the 14th century.

This time, Nina, Jamal, and Lorenzo find themselves in medieval Padua, where Giotto is working on the Scrovegni Chapel. With him is a famous Florentine exile on a secret mission… the poet Dante Alighieri (who, inspired by his friend, decides to start a new literary work: The Inferno). Meanwhile, the kids face a more pressing problem: their friend Mercury, the raven who allowed them to travel through time, was struck by an arrow upon arrival in the past. If he dies, they will be trapped in the Middle Ages forever.

  • 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: 2021
Author
Davide Morosinotto

An author whose books have been translated into 25 languages, in Italy Davide Morosinotto won the Super Andersen Prize in 2017 with Il Rinomato Catalogo Walker&Dawn (The Pocket Watch Gang), Mondadori, and the Strega Children’s Prize 2021 with La Più Grande (The Greatest), Rizzoli, with which he also entered the IBBY Honour List 2021. A finalist at the prestigious Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and winner of the Penzberger Urmel in Germany, he has also won the Prix des Bouquineurs en Seine and the Grand Prix des Lecteurs du Journal de Mickey in France, the Vlag en Wimpel and the Zilveren Griffel in Holland, the KJV in Flanders, the Protagonista Jove prize in Catalonia and he was nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2022 in the United Kingdom.

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