An Inside Look at Political Intrigue, Murder Plots, and Coded Letters During the Italian Renaissance
Yesterday, the Institute was fortunate enough to host a presentation by Professor Marcello Simonetta, a Renaissance scholar, “Assassin’s Creed” video game consultant, and two-time author. Simonetta is in town to share the ground-breaking discovery behind his latest novel, “The Montefeltro Conspiracy,” a fact-driven tome with an overflowing cast of towering personalities such as Botticelli and the Duke of Urbino.
Incredibly, the research that became “The Montefeltro Conspiracy,” began with Simonetta’s decoding of a letter written by his own ancestor, Cicco Simonetta, secretary and adviser to the Duke of Milan. By cracking this letter five-hundred years after its writing, Simonetta has cast one of the most diabolical conspiracies of the Renaissance in a shocking new light…
To read more, check out “The Montefeltro Conspiracy,” on Amazon.