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The Third Heaven Conspiracy

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20070826
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In 1300 the poet Dante Alighieri became prior of Florence. He was exiled a couple of years later, but author Leoni here uses the brief period of savage intrigue when the poet was in office as the basis for a learned medieval thriller.

Things set off at a cracking pace with the Saracen destruction of Acre in 1291. Nine years later, shortly after his investiture as prior, Dante is called to the scene of a grotesque murder at a church being converted into a university. A man has been found suffocated, his head encased in quicklime. Dante becomes convinced that the murderer must come from one of ...

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