The Weight of Silk

By Internecio Pulicorum

In the shadow of Florence's Duomo, a daughter's vengeance unravels a family's legacy--and her own sanity. It's 1490, and the Bandini palazzo hums with silk and secrets. When Tommaso Bandini, a brash silk merchant, is knifed in a Venetian alley, his daughter Lucia doesn't mourn--she plots. Consumed by grief and a festering rage, she sees betrayal in her mother Giuliana's quick remarriage to the oily Lorenzo Strozzi, a minor noble with blood on his ledger. With her exiled brother Giovanni and a grizzled family tutor, Piero, Lucia weaves a conspiracy of poison and chaos, targeting the guild banquet where her enemies preen. But vengeance is a messy loom--threads snap, plans fray, and the blood she spills isn't the blood she wants. Fleeing a botched vendetta, Lucia stumbles from Florence's opulent halls to a Tuscan convent's damp cell, her mind a tangle of silk bolts and ghosts. Giovanni vanishes north, a scarred shadow, while the palazzo rots, its attic a mausoleum of moth-eaten dreams. Years later, whispers of Lucia's smudged journal--a fractured hymn to rage and ruin--haunt Florence's markets, a legend born from a family's collapse. In this maximalist reimagining of Sophocles' Electra, Renaissance Italy's beauty and brutality collide with a voice that's equal parts manic and mournful, spinning a tapestry of ambition, betrayal, and the weight of silk that never lifts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F5PXGW7F
• ISBN13: 9798280644083
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 65 Pages
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.1" x 5.5"