1610 :a sundial in grave mary gentle,
Publisher: gollancz
ISBN: 0575072504
Edition: Hardcover; 2003
Summary:
Four hundred years ago, Hermetic magic is about to transform into
science: 1610 is the year when everything could change. Robert Fludd,
English physician and astrologer, wields the heritage of Doctor John
Dee and Giordano Bruno to foretell the future. But Fludd doesn't like
the centuries that he is predicting. So someone will have to change
the future . .. Valentin Rochefort, duellist, down-at-heels
aristocrat and spy for the Duc de Sully, France's powerful finance
minister, has troubles of his own, thank you very much - not the
least of which is Dariole, a young man of his acquaintance who is (in
Rochefort's opinion) lust walking on legs - and as irresponsible as
an alley-cat. The last thing Rochefort needs is a mad English
astrologer in his life. Continental Europe is briefly at peace, but
Henri IV of France is planning to invade the German principalities.
In England, only 5 years earlier, conspirators nearly succeeded in
blowing up King James and his Parliament. The seeds of the English
Civil War and the Thirty Years War are visibly being sown . .. For a
man of no conscience, Rochefort is about to find himself caught
between loyalty, love, and blackmail, between kings, queens,
politicians and Rosicrucians - and the woman he has, unknowingly,
crossed land and sea to meet.
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