Deze serie transporteert lezers naar de fascinerende stad Venetië, een rijk van glasblazen, ingewikkelde plots en verborgen geheimen. Volg personages terwijl ze zich verdiepen in de schaduwwereld van ambachtelijke glasproductie en onderweg schokkende misdaden ontdekken. Elk deel biedt een spannende mix van historische setting, mysterie en de diepe menselijke zoektocht naar genezing en waarheid.
When cleric and copyist Edgardo d'Arduino's failing eyesight threatens his livelihood, he travels to Venice, the city of glassmakers, in search of a stone that can restore one's sight, and there stumbles upon a series of shocking crimes that are shaking the world of the glassmakers.
In a medieval Venice ravaged by famine and orgiastic revelries, the protagonists of The Apothecary's Shop explore the depths of the city and the paths to the supernatural in their search for a missing child. The young Costanza, of the noble Grimani family, has disappeared. Edgardo, the family scribe, vows to return the girl to her family, an ambitious enterprise considering his failing eyesight. Physical ailments and emotional torment hinder Edgardo's search, for as he undertakes this perilous investigation, images of his own lost love--Kallis, a slave from the Far East who disappeared in a storm years ago--are resurrected. Help arrives in the form of Abella, the only female doctor in Venice. From her, Edgardo learns of occult medical practices and of Sabbatai's Apothecary, where the city's most desperate citizens seek heretical remedies and concoctions to sooth their suffering. It is here, however, where the secret of Constanza's disappearance may lie. Venal physicians and legitimate healers, unscrupulous relatives, mystics and apothecaries, wealthy nobility and the wretched poor, undertakers, Eastern merchants, African slave traders, each plays a role this ingeniously constructed mystery set in the busy and licentious trade port of Venice. The Apothecary's Shop is an erudite literary thriller in the vein of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and takes readers on an astonishing voyage into a city both distant yet familiar.
Venezia, 1119 d.C. Mentre la città è oppressa da uno dei più lunghi periodi di siccità della sua storia, tre donne si trovano coinvolte in una sconvolgente vicenda. Kallis, la schiava, sospettata di un delitto orribile, deve difendersi da un’accusa infamante. Abella, la prima donna medico di Venezia, è in preda a una passione insana. Magdalena, moglie di uno dei mercanti più ricchi della città, cerca di farsi strada nella chiusa nobiltà veneziana lottando col proprio terribile passato. Alle loro spalle si muove Turchillus, il monaco bianco, figura enigmatica e imprevedibile, arrivato su una galea proveniente da Alessandria d’Egitto, santo, visionario, mistico, uomo dalle molte facce che nessuno riesce a comprendere.Una saga che mescola fascino e mistero in una narrazione densa, profonda, avvincente, piena di colpi di scena. Con L’angelo del mare fangoso Roberto Tiraboschi conclude il primo atto della saga in tre volumi sulle origini medievali di Venezia iniziata con La pietra per gli occhi e La bottega dello speziale.