El mercenario del Dux

Synopsis of El mercenario del Dux

«El mercenario del Dux» is the historical novel by Vicente Álvarez, published by Ediciones Destino in paperback (330 pages, in Spanish).

In 1635, the city of Rome serves as the setting for the mission that Bosco, a Spanish hired assassin in the service of Venice and a powerful secret society, senses will be the last of his career: recovering a valuable cameo from the workshop of Benvenuto Cellini.

The novel was published in 2003, belongs to the Áncora & Delfin collection (volume 972), and won the Premio de Novela Destino-Guión 2003.

For readers of historical fiction and intrigue, especially those interested in seventeenth-century Venice.