Richard Kurti writes about the inspiration behind his Basilica Diaries thriller series, set in Renaissance Rome at the time of the rebuilding of St Peter’s Basilica. He finds contemporary echoes, some unexpected… It was extraordinary to witness. Even in the tech-driven 21st century, with 10,000 satellites circling the Earth and information flowing between eight billion […]
Carnival of Chaos by Richard Kurti
1508, Rome; an abandoned ship is drifting in the mouth of the Tiber and a horrific discovery is found inside. Nearly 300 men were packed together in the hold. All of them are dead. They were migrant workers shipped over from North Africa, cheap labour to cut the cost of building St Peter’s Basilica, and […]