Chosen Man

From the bulb of a rare flower blooms ambition and scandalRome 1635. As Flanders braces for another long year of war, a Spanish count presents the Vatican with a means of disrupting the Dutch rebels'' booming economy. His plan is brilliant. They just need the right man to implement it.Enter Ludovico da Portovenere, a charismatic spice and silk merchant. Intrigued by the Vatican''s proposal-and hun...