May 11, 2012 | Publishing - Travel
There's a really lovely piece written by my wife about our first trip together to Italy while researching THE MASTER OF VERONA. It's put up by my good friend, the amazingly talented author C.W. Gortner at his blog Historical Boys. If you're not a regular...
May 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
The only trouble with the regular Kindle is that the maps can be rather small. So I thought I'd share them here. These were drawn by my mother, Jill Blixt, and she did an incredible job. They're based on the maps in A.M. Allen's THE HISTORY OFVERONA. First...
Apr 30, 2012 | Books - Shakespeare - The Novel
Some stories are part of a grand narrative. Some are small, insular, intimate. But no less deserving to be told. Collected here are three short stories from the world outside Verona's walls – Vicenza, Padua, and Avignon. These pieces of Blixt's...
Apr 27, 2012 | Shakespeare - The Novel
While the brilliant and wily Cesco is schooled in his new duties at the hand of a hard master, Pietro Alaghieri travels to Avignon, current seat of the Papacy, to fight his excommunication and plead for Cesco's legitimacy. But an old foe has been waiting for this...
Apr 26, 2012 | Books - Shakespeare - The Novel
Romeo & Juliet is the greatest love story ever told. And every story has a beginning. A sweeping novel of Renaissance Italy, THE MASTER OF VERONA follows Pietro Alaghieri, eldest son of the poet Dante, as he’s caught up by the charisma and genius of Verona’s...
