The Palace

Love, power, and corruption in fifteenth-century Florence involves Lorenzo de Medici, his friend Botticelli, and Savonarola, a fanatical monk whose hypnotic effect on the citizens has led to the burnings of Botticelli's paintings and a bloodbath of superstition and violence that engulfs Demetrice, a beautiful courtesan and beloved of the seductive vampire Saint-Germain.