In eighteenth-century Venice, Jacopo Frontoni is feared as a bravo, a paid killer of the state, while the old fisherman Antonio pleads with the Senate for his grandson. Don Camillo Monforte schemes to win the heiress Donna Violetta. All of them run up against the Council of Three, whose masked justice belies the republic’s name.
One of Cooper’s European novels, an American’s attack on oligarchy dressed as a Venetian thriller. Download the free EPUB.