Iain Pears We are in Oxford in the 1660s - a time, and place, of great intellectual, scientific, religious and political ferment. Robert Grove, a fellow of New College is...

Iain Pears Someone's planning to raid an ancient monastery in Rome. But why? And when? Enter art expert Jonathan Argyll... July 8, 1997 by Scribner

Iain Pears   In national bestseller The Dream of Scipio, acclaimed author Iain Pears intertwines three intellectual mysteries, three love stories, and three of the darkest moments in human history....

Iain Pears English art scholar Jonathan Argyll was amazed to find himself arrested for vagrancy-while searching for a long-lost Raphael in a tiny Roman church. Although General Bottando of the...