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Atria Books, March 2006
eBook, 336 pages
ISBN-10: 1416524673
ISBN-13: 9781416524670
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'I cannot recall a more dangerous and tangled puzzle than the one I was called upon to solve in the New Year of 1497...'
An anonymous Soothsayer has written to Rome suggesting that Leonardo da Vinci has encrypted a secret, blasphemous code in his painting The Last Supper. Father Agostino Leyre, an Inquisitor and expert in cryptography, is dispatched by the Pope to the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie to decode the painting. Should he succeed, da Vinci will face trial for heresy -- and certain execution.
Full of dark surprises, The Secret Supper depicts a deadly game of wits between the brilliant Leonardo da Vinci and the man intent on uncovering the shattering secrets behind one of the most famous Christian masterpieces.
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"In exposing heretical elements visible in Leonardo da Vinci's painting, The Secret Supper will astonish and enlighten readers. Javier Sierra serves up a plausible and intriguing story, highly seasoned with well-researched lore about the beliefs of medieval Cathars, whose faith included secret teachings allegedly confided to the most beloved companions of Jesus -- Mary Magdalene and John the Evangelist."
-- Margaret L. Starbird, author of The Woman with the Alabaster Jar and Mary Magdalene, Bride in Exile
"A fascinating yarn and very well told.... Speaks volumes about Leonardo's mastery with a brush."
-- San Francisco Chronicle
"For fans of religious conspiracy and reinterpretations of religious history."
-- The Washington Post
"Offers a new way of interpreting The Last Supper...[and] a fresh contribution to the da Vinci industry."
-- Publishers Weekly
"A most satisfying entertainment....The monastic life has not been depicted as vividly by any novelist since Umberto Eco's bestselling Name of the Rose."
-- Daily News (New York)
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...da Vinci's day, paintings were the mass media of the time," says novelist and art historian Javier Sierra. "Obviously, there were no movies and no television, and there were very few books, because almost nobody could read. For ...
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