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Medieval poet an unlikely sleuth in `The Mosaic Crimes'.(Book review)

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From: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
Date: 20070404
Author:Wilson, Frank

Byline: Frank Wilson

"The Mosaic Crimes" by Giulio Leoni, translated by Anne Milano Appel; Harcourt ($25)

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The great medieval poet Dante Alighieri would seem an unlikely gumshoe. He certainly proves to be an unusual one in Giulio Leoni's novel "The Mosaic Crimes," which itself is as odd a thriller as you are likely to come upon.

The crimes Dante finds himself investigating take place in June 1300, shortly after the poet is elected one of the six Priors of Florence (the city was a republic, governed by a College of Priors). But the novel opens with a brief ...

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