Arts and Wonders

Tomasso Grilli, a dwarf gifted with an extraordinary capacity for artistic forgery recounts the story of his life, from his base beginnings in Florence, through his apprenticeship to the painter Arcimboldo, to his life of crime in Prague to the court of an impoverished, ignorant ruler in the German Dukedom of Felsungrunde.

ARTS AND WONDERS follows Tommaso Grilli, dwarf and talented art forger, from his unhappy beginnings in Renaissance Florence, via a life of crime in Prague, to the minor German Dukedom of Felsengrunde. There, as curator and (more often than not) 'creator' of a fantastical Library of Arts, he makes himself indispensable to the impoverished duke -- with whom his own fortunes will be murderously linked.