Last Renaissance Man

The Last Renaissance Man is an imaginative adventure complete with a true Hurricane story and fascinating history set in England and the Caribbean. You'll believe the 1695 narrative is a true nautical-nightmare! Meet a composer, whose idea of "R&R" in the tropics turns his passage to trial-by-water, blending musical and maritime history into a Shakespearian Tempest-tale that'll rock your boat! The London portion of the novel is set in colorful Baroque theatre and tippling houses (pubs), where Henry Purcell was given credit to semi-operas like The Tempest, then called Masques. After a hard winter, his Patroness dead, his income slashed, his wife suspicious, Henry's agent wants another tour of cheap venues. However, Plague has Henry fearing contagion. Hallucinogenic from the wrong cure, he flees to sunny Madeira but his Sea Venture unfurls unpredictably. A storm-cursed ship and a superstitious crew believe he's a Jonah; then a course-change turns his vision of a magical Admiral into truth, foreshadowing Shakespeare's play, The Tempest. Eccentric Lord Willoughby, Ex-Admiral, commands the elements; meet his mulatto daughter, Miranda, as spirited as her enchanted mare, Juno. Do events resemble his new opera? Stay aboard for Book 2; the nautical adventure grows menacingly real!Guy, Michael is the author of 'Last Renaissance Man', published 2005 under ISBN 9780741426963 and ISBN 074142696X.