Back in Venice for a while I decided to revisit the locations of The Garden of Angels and gather my thoughts about a book that took me three years to write, and took me to corners of the city I never knew existed.

I look at some of the places behind the murder of Lorenzino de Medici in 1548 which sparks the story and walk the way the doomed man did the night his assassins finally caught up with him at the Ponte San Tomà.

A preview of Richard Armitage reading The Borgia Portrait, currently £7.99 on Google Play Books.