Type :epub | 2.98 MB | English | 978-0-440-33495-8 | Ian Caldwell |  2004 | Random House Publishing Group

Description: "One part The Da Vinci Code, one part The Name of the Rose and one part A Separate Peace . . . a smart, swift, multitextured tale that both entertains and informs."--San Francisco Chronicle
 
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Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two friends are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a  Renaissance text that has baffled scholars for centuries. Famous for  its hypnotic power over those who study it, the five-hundred-year-old Hypnerotomachia may  finally reveal its secrets--to Tom Sullivan, whose father was obsessed  with the book, and Paul Harris, whose future depends on it.
 
As  the deadline looms, research has stalled--until a vital clue is  unearthed: a long-lost diary that may prove to be the key to deciphering  the ancient text. But when a longtime student of the book is murdered  just hours later, a...

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