Teaser Tuesday (10 Jul)

Steph P. Bianchini July 10, 2018 5 Comments

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker.

Anyone can play along by doing the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers

“It was clear to his scientific mind that the transformation of Angelo da Piczano’s heart was not the result of the shadowy spell of a witch, but the much more concrete art of alchemy.”

(~ Inquisition by Alfredo Coluccio, Kindle Edition, 2009)

[I literally bumped into this novel while researching the Italian Inquisition for a non-fiction article I’m writing at the moment. I was charmed in minutes and bought it straight away -in English, by the way, since it was cheaper than in the Italian original. This is the blurb: “In 14th-century Italy, Mondino is a university anatomist – a man of science in a land governed by the brutal Inquisition. But the corpse brought to Mondino’s laboratory one stormy night defies natural law: The victim is a Templar knight, and his heart has been transformed into a block of iron.” If you love historical fiction and you can’t let go of either Eco’s The Name of the Rose or Druon’s Le Rois Maudits, this is the book for you!]

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Teaser Tuesdays’ post, or share your ‘teasers’ in a comment here and/or in The Purple Booker.