000304739 000__ 03263cam\a2200409\a\45\0 000304739 001__ 304739 000304739 005__ 20210513112433.0 000304739 008__ 031230s2004\\\\nyuab\\\\\\\\\000\1\eng\\ 000304739 010__ $$a 2003070124 000304739 020__ $$a0385337116 000304739 02431 $$a9780385337113 000304739 0291_ $$aNLGGC$$b259699969 000304739 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm54006990 000304739 035__ $$a304739 000304739 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dIG#$$dXY4$$dOCL$$dBAKER$$dNLGGC$$dISE 000304739 043__ $$an-us-nj 000304739 049__ $$aISEA 000304739 05000 $$aPS3603.A435$$bR85 2004 000304739 08200 $$a813/.6$$222 000304739 084__ $$a18.06$$2bcl 000304739 1001_ $$aCaldwell, Ian,$$d1976- 000304739 24514 $$aThe rule of four /$$cIan Caldwell & Dustin Thomason. 000304739 260__ $$aNew York :$$bDial Press,$$c2004. 000304739 300__ $$a372 p. :$$bill., map ;$$c25 cm. 000304739 520__ $$aAn ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide memorably in THE RULE OF FOUR -- a brilliant work of fiction that weaves together suspense and scholarship, high art and unimaginable treachery. It's Easter at Princeton. Seniors are scrambling to finish their theses. And two students, Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris, are a hair's breadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili--a renowned text attributed to an Italian nobleman, a work that has baffled scholars since its publication in 1499. For Tom, their research has been a link to his family's past -- and an obstacle to the woman he loves. For Paul, it has become an obsession, the very reason for living. But as their deadline looms, research has stalled -- until a long-lost diary surfaces with a vital clue. And when a fellow researcher is murdered just hours later, Tom and Paul realize that they are not the first to glimpse the Hypnerotomachia 's secrets. Suddenly the stakes are raised, and as the two friends sift through the codes and riddles at the heart of the text, they are beginning to see the manuscript in a new light--not simply as a story of faith, eroticism and pedantry, but as a bizarre, coded mathematical maze. And as they come closer and closer to deciphering the final puzzle of a book that has shattered careers, friendships and families, they know that their own lives are in mortal danger. Because at least one person has been killed for knowing too much. And they know even more. From the streets of fifteenth-century Rome to the rarified realm of the Ivy League, from a shocking 500 year-old murder scene to the drama of a young man's coming of age, THE RULE OF FOUR takes us on an entertaining, illuminating tour of history--as it builds to a pinnacle of nearly unbearable suspense 000304739 60010 $$aColonna, Francesco,$$d-1527.$$tHypnerotomachia Poliphili$$vFiction. 000304739 650_0 $$aYoung men$$vFiction. 000304739 650_0 $$aMale friendship$$vFiction. 000304739 650_0 $$aCollege students$$vFiction. 000304739 650_0 $$aFathers and sons$$vFiction. 000304739 650_0 $$aItalian literature$$xAppreciation$$vFiction. 000304739 651_0 $$aPrinceton (N.J.)$$vFiction. 000304739 7001_ $$aThomason, Dustin. 000304739 85200 $$bgen$$hPS3603.A435$$iR85$$i2004 000304739 85642 $$3Contributor biographical information$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random051/2003070124.html 000304739 85641 $$3Sample text$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random051/2003070124.html 000304739 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random051/2003070124.html 000304739 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:304739$$pGLOBAL_SET 000304739 980__ $$aBIB 000304739 980__ $$aBOOK 000304739 994__ $$aC0$$bISE