Böcker av Joseph Orbi

The Lives of Felix V is compelling, powerful, and disturbingly prophetic, with 2 of 3 astounding revelations already having come true, and the third-- slowly evolving. From the horrors of the Second World War through the political and religious conspiracies of the postwar period, Joseph Orbi's novel carefully weaves together fiction with little known, and troubling historical fact in a story of intrigue, manipulation, and murder at the highest echelons of the Vatican. The novel chronicles the lives of two men: Felix Ronnoco, an orphan who grows up under the tutelage of a powerful member of the Vatican elite, and young Damir Pavelic', son of Ante Pavelic', the forgotten führer of World War II. Linking the two is a priest, who adopts Ronnoco and helps Ante Pavelic' and his family escape from Europe at the end of the war. The same man who, thirty-one years later, becomes the first non-Italian pope in 500 years, a pope with a daring and dangerous political vision. The Lives of Felix V is that rare event in literature that combines a sweeping and tightly-woven plot with vivid characters, suspense, biting wit, irreverence, tragedy, and romance, soaring to a climax of unprecedented boldness. It is more than a novel. It is prophecy.

Joseph Orbi's Cenacolo is a historical novel of intrigue, unbearable suspense and forbidden love. Its principal characters are some of the giants of the Renaissance; Leonardo Da Vinci, Niccòlo Machiavelli, Ludovico Sforza and Çesare Borgia, depicted, not like the mythical figures they became, but as they were, men driven by passion; working, loving, striving and simply trying to survive one of the most exciting periods in history.

Cenacolo is a historical drama based on a not-so-fictional encounter between three of the most famous characters of the Renaissance, Leonardo Da Vinci, Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, and Niccolo Machiavelli. The action takes place at the height and glory of the Milanese court, while Leonardo labored to finish his most famous creation, the fresco at the refectory of the Santa Maria delle Grazie known as the Cenacolo, (The Last Supper), which depicts Jesus Christ's repast with his apostles on the eve of the passion.The plot unfurls the eternal philosophical debate of good against evil; intrigue, falsehood, wickedness, manipulation and treason, versus the ignorant simplicity of innocence, and where torture and murder confront the sublime artistic expression of the human spirit.Cenacolo was the winner of the San Juan Theater Festival of 1996 and was presented as a workshop in Lincoln Center, NYC, in 1995.