The orphan of Florence

In this irresistible historical novel set in the turbulent world of the Medicis, a young woman finds herself driven from pick-pocketing to espionage when she meets a mysterious man. An orphan in Florence Giulia must choose between becoming a nun, or being married off to a man she doesn't love. Instead she escapes onto the streets of Florence, spending two years as a pickpocket. When she is caught, her victim offers her a business proposition. The man claims to be a cabalist, a student of Jewish mysticism and ritua…