The Savage Shore by David Hewson5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Puffed up with anticipatory pride, Godolphin supplements the family circle including his wife, producer and former student, Lady Felicity, and his son, Jolyon, by gathering once more the Gilded Circle of academics he taught at Cambridge-Caroline Fitzroy, Bernard Hauptmann, and George Bourne-and he commissions Luca Volpetti of the State Archives and his recently widowed friend Arnold Clover to sift through the Wolff Bequest looking for two telltale papers that implicate Lodovico Buonarroti, better known as Michelangelo, in the killings. So he leaps at the news that Grigor Wolff, an antiquarian who’s followed him appreciatively for years, has died and left him the Wolff Bequest, 13 trunks of papers that may throw dazzling new light on the assassinations of Duke Alessandro de’ Medici in 1537 and Lorenzino de’ Medici, the cousin long presumed to be his killer, 11 years later. TV historian Sir Marmaduke Godolphin, who hasn’t had a hit series in years, doesn’t think 75 is too old for a comeback. ![]() An English archivist retired to Venice gets sucked into a 500-year-old murder case. ![]()
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