Incantation is the story of Dr. Robert Martin, a University of Chicago professor and prize-winning author, and the world's pre-eminent scholar on Renaissance figure Adalberto Colangio. Abruptly deserted by the woman he loves, Martin takes solace in research, traveling to Siena, Italy to uncover the mystery of Colangio's sudden disappearance from the Renaissance scene. Could it be that love has struck down two great intellectuals? With a cast of dynamic and realistic characters, readers are guaranteed that instant empathy so rare to modern fiction.