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The Physician of Pestilence
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Publisher: Elizabeth Carter
Published: Nov 4 2025
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In a world where faith ruled and knowledge burned, one man dared to question the will of God.
Europe, 1347. As the Black Death descends upon the continent, Dr. Matteo di Rossi-an Italian physician devoted to reason over ritual-finds himself condemned for seeking truth in a time of fear. From the dying ports of Genoa to the papal courts of Avignon and the graveyards of Paris, Matteo's search for understanding becomes a battle against superstition, zealotry, and his own fragile humanity.
Beside him stand Luca, his loyal apprentice, and Alys, a young healer marked as a witch yet embodying the mercy the Church has forgotten. Together, they risk everything to record their findings in a secret book that will outlive them all-the Codex Vitae, a testament to compassion, science, and the sanctity of breath itself.
Spanning centuries-from plague-ridden Europe to the birth of the Renaissance and beyond-The Physician of Pestilence is a sweeping historical epic about faith and defiance, love and legacy, and the eternal struggle to keep knowledge alive when ignorance wields the torch.
In the end, one truth remains:
The breath remembers.
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