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A Venetian Navy Officer sails with his galley in Constantinople which is about to be besieged by the army of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II. He is blocked in the city after a decision of the Venetian authorities and fights alongside the Greek defenders of the city and the Venetian and Genoese that assist them, living all the intense events that precede the fall of the city and the slaughter and pillage that follows.Acts of heroism, military valor, love, intrigue and espionage intermingle...
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A Venetian Navy Officer sails with his galley in Constantinople which is about to be besieged by the army of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II. He is blocked in the city after a decision of the Venetian authorities and fights alongside the Greek defenders of the city and the Venetian and Genoese that assist them, living all the intense events that precede the fall of the city and the slaughter and pillage that follows.Acts of heroism, military valor, love, intrigue and espionage intermingle to make this a novel hard to put down. Events follow one another in quick succession in the setting of Constantinople of the late Middle Ages, a city living between East and West, prisoner of its imperial past and present.This is a historical novel based on the chroniclers and eye-witness historians of the siege and fall of Constantinople and the beginnings of the Ottoman Empire, recounting events from the point of view of the Venetians rather than from the perspective of the Greeks or the Turks. Great attention has been paid to historical accuracy as well as to the description of daily life, political conditions, the portraits of the protagonists and the description of the actual military conditions. It goes without saying that a number of elements have been exaggerated in the course of the narrative to conform to the demands a novel places on the author, always with care so as not to distort historical accuracy.