{"product_id":"the-second-woman-ebook","title":"The Second Woman (Ebook)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo women were taken. The record names only one.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRome, 1426. Funicella, a midwife of Trastevere, is brought before the court on a charge of witchcraft, and the court’s notary writes down all of it. This novel is his record: session after session, deposition after deposition, a charge of ten articles, and the same few Latin lines on the days when nothing happens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe notary gives one of the two women page after page. The other he calls “the other woman,” and the line ends there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe record says she confessed without torture. It lists a table, a stool, a bell and an hour. It does not say what filled them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“What I said, I said. What I did not say, I did not say.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA trial told only by the man paid to write it down.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlessandro Catorcini writes literary historical fiction set in the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance, from the counting houses of Genoa to the courts of Rome and the Iberia of 1492. He writes in English and in his own Italian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEPUB ebook, delivered instantly by BookFunnel. Works on Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books and more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alessandro Catorcini","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48210642141345,"sku":"SWM-EN-EBOOK","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/9285\/0849\/files\/TheSecondWoman_store_cover_1200x1800_f25fe85e-4b9d-4459-bd64-627eda8455e0.jpg?v=1792892418","url":"https:\/\/shop.catorcini.com\/products\/the-second-woman-ebook","provider":"Alessandro Catorcini","version":"1.0","type":"link"}