Porzia

The wedding music is still muffled behind the doors when Porzia’s husband is challenged over whether the stars are worlds—and his brother declares that the books should burn in Hell.

In late-afternoon Naples, around 1570, Porzia’s wedding unfolds on a flower-bright terrace above the Bay, with Vesuvius looming beyond the revelry. Barely an hour a bride, she finds Rizzio—her husband, a leader among the Literati—sparring over truth, pagan learning, and heresy instead of attending to her. His brother Osio vows to protect her, but his anger carries a more dangerous purpose: Rizzio’s ideas may soon reach the Inquisition. Between music and menace, Porzia must discover what lies beneath the brothers’ quarrel—and what her marriage has drawn her into. Can joy survive when the Holy Office is listening?

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