The Butcher's Boy: Book I of The renaissance Brothers

Abused and orphaned at thirteen, red-haired Rosso flees his Venetian village with only the clothes on his

back and his brother’s bitter threats in his ears. He becomes one of the hundreds of shadowy figures roaming the medieval Italian countryside, threatened by warring kingdoms, deadly plagues, and often one another.

But Rosso is not one to give in to suffering or fear, and his new, independent life takes a turn for the better when he meets two fellow travelers who offer him the kind of fami...