Publisher's Synopsis
Mysterious papers written by the English Ambassador to Venice, Sir Henry Wotton, tell the story of an English writer-spy who lived and worked in Italy as a writer and a secret agent. He was stationed at the English embassy in Venice, the first protestant embassy in the catholic country of Italy. Formerly known as Christopher Marlowe, he was forced to write under a pseudonym: William Shakespeare, while working in Venice, italy using the alias name of Gregorio deMonti.