THE DEVIL'S APOSTLE: When the Pope tries to end Magic, all Hell breaks loose.
In an age when Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were the acknowledged as the greatest artists of the Renaissance, Johannes Faustus was even more famous throughout Europe as the greatest magician the world had ever known.
Performing his tricks before Kings and Princes, Popes and Bishops, this genius of the slight of hand became famous throughout history in Christopher Marlowe's play Dr. Faustus. How, after all, could he suddenly disappear in a puff of smoke and perform his amazing tricks, unless he had sold his soul to the Devil.
But when Guttenberg invented the printing press, and when Martin Luthur published his heretical thesis, terrified Popes put an end to such chicanery, and the days of magicians like Faustus were numbered.
In this brilliantly researched and gripping novel by master story-teller Alan Gold, we're transported back in time to an age of priests and printers, Prelates and prostitutes, to an age and a place where the story of Faust, and Christopher Marlowe's play, actually happened.
In an age when Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were the acknowledged as the greatest artists of the Renaissance, Johannes Faustus was even more famous throughout Europe as the greatest magician the world had ever known.
Performing his tricks before Kings and Princes, Popes and Bishops, this genius of the slight of hand became famous throughout history in Christopher Marlowe's play Dr. Faustus. How, after all, could he suddenly disappear in a puff of smoke and perform his amazing tricks, unless he had sold his soul to the Devil.
But when Guttenberg invented the printing press, and when Martin Luthur published his heretical thesis, terrified Popes put an end to such chicanery, and the days of magicians like Faustus were numbered.
In this brilliantly researched and gripping novel by master story-teller Alan Gold, we're transported back in time to an age of priests and printers, Prelates and prostitutes, to an age and a place where the story of Faust, and Christopher Marlowe's play, actually happened.
In an age when Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were the acknowledged as the greatest artists of the Renaissance, Johannes Faustus was even more famous throughout Europe as the greatest magician the world had ever known.
Performing his tricks before Kings and Princes, Popes and Bishops, this genius of the slight of hand became famous throughout history in Christopher Marlowe's play Dr. Faustus. How, after all, could he suddenly disappear in a puff of smoke and perform his amazing tricks, unless he had sold his soul to the Devil.
But when Guttenberg invented the printing press, and when Martin Luthur published his heretical thesis, terrified Popes put an end to such chicanery, and the days of magicians like Faustus were numbered.
In this brilliantly researched and gripping novel by master story-teller Alan Gold, we're transported back in time to an age of priests and printers, Prelates and prostitutes, to an age and a place where the story of Faust, and Christopher Marlowe's play, actually happened.