Son of Two Fathers: Book 3 (Grazia dei Rossi Trilogy) - Softcover

April, 1536. Danilo del Medigo, son of Grazia dei Rossi, arrives incognito in Venice from Istanbul, with two assassins from Suleiman the Magnificent's court hot on his trail. Western civilization is in mortal crisis. Fear and loathing are spreading everywhere. Jews and "New Christians" - people whose families had converted from Judaism - are threatened with expulsion, imprisonment, and death. Danilo seeks refuge in the Venetian Ghetto, and promptly falls in love with the beautiful Miriamne Hazan. But soon Danilo is blackmailed into spying for Venice and begins a dangerous double life, involving courtesans, libertines, and prostitutes. Again blackmailed, and pursued by killers, Danilo must abandon Miriamne to save her. He flees Venice, joining a troop of itinerant actors, and, with a fellow spy, actress Angelica Satti, he plunges into the agony of the Renaissance: the papacy in crisis, Protestants warring Catholics, France against the Holy Roman Empire, the Inquisition threatening everyone, and Suleiman the Magnificent poised to invade Italy and expand the Ottoman Empire into the heart of Europe. As panic spreads, Jewish converts must flee persecution or die. Will Danilo help rescue his fellow Jews, and will he be reunited with Miriamne Hazan? The final volume in the Grazia dei Rossi Trilogy, Son of Two Fathers is a riveting and evocative historical novel set against the backdrop of the political unrest and intrigue of Renaissance Italy.

JACQUELINE PARK (1925-2018) was the bestselling author of the Grazia dei Rossi Trilogy (The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi: Book 1, The Legacy of Grazia dei Rossi: Book 2, and Son of Two Fathers: Book 3). She was also the founding chairman of the Dramatic Writing Program and professor emerita at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. GILBERT REID is a veteran television and radio producer and writer, who lived and worked for thirty years in Europe. He was nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Documentary Writing for Storming the Ridge, and for eleven years he was the Director of the Canadian Cultural Center in Rome. He has written for the Globe and Mail, the Times Literary Supplement, and many other publications, and he has interviewed such personalities as Robert Altman, Marguerite Duras, Sergio Leone, and Northrop Frye. He is the author of the critically acclaimed story collection So This Is Love. His short story, "Pavilion 24," was nominated for Best Fiction by the Canadian Magazine Awards. He lives in Toronto.