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A tall, yellow-haired young European traveler calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the Emperor Akbar, lord of the great Mughal Empire, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, who is taken captive and finally escapes to Renaissance Florence, where she proceeds to enchant the city. Yet this was 100 years ago--the math doesn't work--so the stranger cannot be believed. Can his tale unravel the mystery? The Enchantress of Florence is a dazzling book full of wonders-- meticulously researched, and replete with incredible characters including Akbar the Great, one of the great emperors in world history, and Nicollo Machiavelli. It is a novel about East meeting West; about Florence at the dawn of the Renaissance, a great lost Empire, the meaning of political power, and its proper uses, the power of love to overcome time. It is also the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. Virtuosic, by turns hilarious and profoundly moving, irreverent, bawdy, relevant, multi-layered, complex and completely absorbing: The Enchantress of Florence is a masterpiece, both Rushdie at the height of his powers and a bold departure by one of the world's best known, highly praised, and most admired novelists.