
Автор: | Стефания Аучи |
Година на издаване: | 2023 |
Език: | Английски |
Корица: | Мека |
Националност: | Италианска |
Страници: | 304 |
Издател/Прозиводител: | HarperCollins |
ISBN/Barcode: | 9780062931702 |
Код: | 0235.931702 |
Размери: | 0.29 kg ( 13 cm x 20 cm ) |
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Known as the Lions of Sicily, the Florios have officially arrived. Once
rich only in ambition, the family has amassed a fortune that includes
palaces, factories, ships, silks, and jewels. The city of Sicily admires
them, honors them and, above all, fears them.
Ruthless Vincenzo
was destined to rule Casa Florio since birth, a fearless drive that
pulses through his veins, pushing him to look beyond Sicily towards
Rome, Europe and its courts, the naval domination of the Mediterranean,
and eventually the purchase of the entire Archipelago of the Egadi to
build his dazzling empire. But his heart is black as ice. To seize Casa
Florio, he abandoned the love of his life—an act of treachery which
still casts a dark shadow.
Barely twenty, his son Ignazziddu
stands to inherit all that his father has built. Yet he is nothing like
Ignatius. A nervous young man, he does not want to be shackled to his
infamous name, to sacrifice himself for the family. Despite his fears,
he embraces Vincenzo’s legacy, and must face a world that changes too
quickly, agitated by new, violent, and uncontrollable forces. Ignazziddu
eventually realizes that it’s not enough to have Florio blood to become
the imposing force his grandfather and father were. What is it they had
that he lacks?
Beside father and son are two extraordinary
women: Giovanna, Vincenzo’s wife, hard and fragile as crystal, full of
passion but hungry for love, and Franca, the wife of Ignazziddu, the
most beautiful woman in Europe, whose golden existence is threatened by
the blows of a cruel fate. It is these women who unforgettably animate
The Triumph of the Lions.
Bringing the Belle Epoque into stunning
relief, Auci dives deeper into the exhilarating and terrible, glorious
and tragic history of a family that, for decades, sat high above Italian
society, and made the heart of an island and city beat.