What is the true nature of freedom, and where may it be found? This question begins to haunt a young Volterrano boy called Tommaso after his city is sacked and occupied by Florence. While his family becomes embroiled in a plot to murder the Medici, Tommaso begins a search for wisdom. In Florence he finds the Platonic Academy and its mysterious head, Marsilio Ficino, but is told that he can make no further progress in his spiritual quest until he has reconciled himself to Lorenzo de' Medici. This is something he cannot do.
He seeks distractions in the workshop of Botticelli; he enjoys beauty of intellect in his employer, the poet Angelo Poliziano; he achieves satisfaction through his craft; but the goddess of Wisdom is calling him, and to win her, all he need do is prostrate himself in front of the tyrant.
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ISBN 978-0-9547367-2-9 price £12.50
