Oratory

ORATORY is a novel of a brilliant sculptor long regulated to the shadows of the art world. The protagonist, Giacomo Serpotta was a genius. The story of his trials and the high points of his career are set among changes of government, plague, and religious fervor of the 17th and 18th centuries in Palermo, Sicily.

Oratory is a novel of a brilliant sculptor long regulated to the shadows of the art world. The protagonist Giacomo Serpotta was a genius. The story of his trials and the high points of his career are set among changes of government, plague, and religious fervor of the 17th and 18th centuries in Palermo, Sicily. His work which is only found in Palermo, Alcomo, and Agrigento are wedding cake like confections of white stucco in a banquet of baroque and rococo style, Within the pages the reader will not only discover the descriptions of the oratories, but will also find an intensive melange of intrigue, art history, perfidy, romance, murder and mystery.

After a successful career in the field of architectural design, writing became a second career after returning to school in 2000. A graduate of Sacred Heart University with a degree in English. A short story writer since 1996, stories have appeared in national magazines, newspapers, anthologies and literary journals. First novel was published in 2012,