A novel by
Steven M. Greenberg
Enter the world of Incantation .
"A Wall of the Palazzo s paneling had been in need of restoration. Behind it, buried in the masonry, conservators had come upon a wooden casket, which, when opened, was seen to contain a quantity of papers, indisputably aged but fresh and well-preserved. Brought to the city archives of Siena and there briefly examined, they were readily adjudged to be hitherto unknown and, indeed, unreferenced manuscript pages in the hand and style of Adalberto Colangio. Within a week, a fax had been sent to Professor Robert Martin at the University of Chicago."
No one truly understands the mechanism of love. Is it chemical? Psychological? Magical?
Love can't be measured or weighed, but it exists in time and space. It's intensity can be all-consuming or as warm and familiar as an old sweater. It can make men and women act against their own basic instincts. Even against their own survival. Or it can twist their lives in unpredictable directions.
Robert Martin, Ph.D., is the author of the prize-winning biography of Adalberto Colangio, the famous Renaissance figure. Martin, always tantalized by the mystery of Colangio's sudden disappearance from the Renaissance scene, decides to follow Colangio's trail into the past. As his research progresses, he finds himself confronting the strange power of love in his own life as well as in the life of Colangio.
Incantation takes the reader on a journey from the august halls of the University of Chicago to the magical city of Siena, Italy; from a crippling love affair to the discovery of the secret behind Colangio's own fate. During the journey Robert Martin's own system of beliefs is shredded by the forces of love and discovery. The tale's finale is a shocker.