[MSN] FW: The Medici Conspiracy voted one of Time's 10 best books of 2006

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Subject: The Medici Conspiracy voted one of Time's 10 best books of 2006


Citation form TIME Europe's 10 Best pick of the year's top books from
Africa, Europe and the Middle East, and the films that lit up 2006:

Peter Watson and Cecilia Todeschini, The Medici Conspiracy

Written like a classic crime story, this true-life tale kicks off with a
botched robbery and police chase. Authorities raid the villa of a
Munich-based antiquarian to discover a collection of 4th century B.C. vases
soaking off encrustations - and traces of theft - in a 1.5-m-deep swimming
pool full of water and caustic chemicals. As the plot thickens, a cast of
crooked art dealers, shady collectors and formidable art institutions are
implicated in an investigation that steers Italy's Art Squad to a Geneva
warehouse filled with looted national treasures. The warehouse's owner?
Giacomo Medici, Italy's most nefarious art dealer. With one of the book's
main players, Marion True, the J. Paul Getty Museum's former antiquities
curator, on trial for conspiring to purchase stolen antiquities, and Medici
challenging a 1995 Rome conviction that sentenced him to 10 years in prison,
even the timing of this book is a work of art. - By Anthee Carassava

http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/printout/0,13155,1570768,00.html

Peter Watson recently spoke to a standing-room only crowd at New York City's
The Chelsea Art Museum
http://www.savingantiquities.org/event.php?eventID=40, in a lecture
sponsored by SAFE/Saving Antiquities for Everyone
http://www,savingantiquities.org