Jan Anne Haar Orden de los libros (cronológico)

De geadopteerde zoon van Leonardo da Vinci schrijft brieven naar zijn onbekende opdrachtgever over de vorderingen die zijn vader maakt in het onderzoek naar een lastercampagne tegen de paus.

Veljača je 1711. U Europi rat za španjolsko naslijeđe traje već godinama i velika su kraljevstva potpuno financijski iscrpljena. Kralj Sunce mora angažirati svoga najboljeg špijuna, kastrata i opata Atta Melanija, koji, iako slijep i u poodmaklim godinama, jedini može ostvariti njegove ciljeve. Atto Melani na prijevaru šalje svoga patuljastoga pomoćnika iz Rima u bogati Beč, gdje će raditi kao ovlašteni kraljevski dimnjačar. Njih dvojica ubrzo će se naći u neizvjesnoj misiji gdje mladoga naprednoga kralja i cara Josipa Prvog pokušavaju obavijestiti o urotnicima koji mu rade o glavi. Istovremeno u Beč nenajavljeno dolazi i turski aga. Gradom ubrzo zaredaju tajanstvena i bizarna umorstva, a Attov se pomoćnik sa skupinom studenata nađe usred najčudesnijih zgoda, koje uključuju i tajanstveni leteći brod. Veritas, treći roman iz serije o Attu Melaniju, bez sumnje potvrđuje da su Rita Monaldi i Francesco Sorti najintrigantniji i najbolji spisateljski dvojac današnjice.

11 September 1683, Rome. The citizens of the city wait anxiously for the outcome of the battle of Vienna as Ottoman forces lay siege to the defenders of Catholic Europe. Meanwhile, a suspected outbreak of plague causes a famous tavern to be placed under quarantine. While detained there, French spy Atto Melani discovers a secret network of passages under the city. They lead him into the Roman underworld and the startling discovery of a plot to assassinate the pope and a plan to use the plague as a weapon of mass destruction in the battle between Islam and the West…

Seminar on Youth is an account of the adventures of a young peasant from northern Italy who becomes a homosexual prostitute in Milan and Paris. For money or company he pursues relationships, most memorably with an insecure French girl, and through her, with her circle of bourgeois women friends.