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While doing some research, Isabella unearths a manuscript dating back to the 1st century BC. It gives a new version of the battle of Lipari, during which three ships sank in the Tyrrhenian Sea while trying to defend a precious cargo. Isabella is curious and discovers that two Roman relics have in fact been found and that during the recovery operations, Carla Sollini, an expert diver, died in mysterious circumstances. As for the phantom cargo, there is no trace of it: could it be that the unpublished manuscript is unreliable? Or that the sea has since destroyed everything?
Barbara Bellomo holds a PhD in Ancient History and teaches at a secondary school. She is the author of several academic publications on Roman history.
For Salani, she has published the Isabella De Clio trilogy, featuring a Sicilian female archaeologist. She is also the author of the historical thriller Il libro dei sette sigilli (The Book of the Seven Seals, 2020) and the historical novel La casa del carrubo (The Carob Tree House, 2022).
In 2024, she made her debut with Garzanti with La biblioteca dei fisici scomparsi (The Library of the Missing Physicists). L’incartatrice di arance (The Woman Who Wrapped Oranges, 2026) is her latest novel.
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