AUTHOR ROSEMARY BRACCO

If centuries of sex, sin, violence, Romance and Heresy echoed within the walls of your childhood home, would you dare spill the secrets now solely in your possession?

The Sins of Castel du Mont is based partly on Italian Folklore  passed down From generation to generation... secrets whispered from father to son, mother to daughter, until the day the author incredibly became the first legitimate child born within its infamous walls.

In 1964, feeling the lure of the castle and the legends surrounding it, author Rosemary Bracco Greenbaum Kohler was drawn to her birthplace  to unravel the mysteries of the Castel du Mont. Conducting intensive interviews with only local citizens over eighty years old, the author collected the four epic tales artfully woven together into this monumental novel. The haunting stories surrounding The Castel were given to her in the dying dialect of Piedmontese.

For centuries, The Castel has kept its secrets and for decades, these unorthodox accounts whispered from generation to generation simmered in translation until the time was ripe for the stories to be revealed…

Legend has it that the occupants of the castel lived a life of notoriety and scandal. The Sins of Castel du Mont  is actually four interwoven stories based on the  research the author  collected and some of castel’s most memorable residents, including Bianca, the bride of an oppressive and cruel count, Clara and dante, victims of an indecent and obscene priest, and lovers, Roxanne and Father Claudio whose forbidden love was shocking not only because Father Claudio was a member of the clergy but because it was under the dispassionate eye of Roxanne’s womanizing husband. 

For Centuries, The Castel has kept it’s secrets. For decades these unorthodox accounts simmered in translation until the time was ripe for the enigma to be revealed.