Liszt's Dante Symphony: A Historical Thriller about the Arts & Deceptive Arts

by Rich DiSilvio (Goodreads Author)

 

 

 Book Summary: Liszt's Dante Symphony is a thrilling tale of murder and covert spy rings amid the turbulent rise of Bismarck's Prussia, thus leading to Hitler's brutal Third Reich.

Following the lives of a student of Liszt's, Angelo Di Purezza, and his son, the reader is taken on a journey of suspense that cascades over two generations. During those years Europe would experience numerous revolutions and witness two World Wars that would feature ghastly chemical weapons, atomic bombs, and deadly poison gas called Zyklon-B.

Franz Liszt is joined by a huge cast of historical characters, including Napoleon III, Pope Pius IX, Rossini, Saint-Saëns, Gustave Dore, Victor Hugo, Albert Einstein, Adolf Hitler and many others. The tale is an exciting amalgamation of history, politics, religion, music, the fine arts, secret codes, murder, suspense, sacrifices, and yes, even romance.

 My Review:  I received this book from the author. I found it to be different and intriguing. I learned a lot of history I did not know anything of in a pleasant exciting way. Real good author to put together such historical twists and turns. A few parts of the book moved slow and I had trouble getting what was going on so I gave this a 4 instead of five. But great different read than most.

I gave it 4/5