Contents:1. Dagger with a red lily (Translation: M Kozhevnikova) Heir to a huge fortune and goddaughter of the Queen of France, the beautiful Florentine Lorenza Davanzatti was promised as a wife to a worthy young man from the noble Strozzi family. However, the happy dreams of the lovers were not destined to come true: on the eve of the wedding, the groom was found on the threshold of his own house with a dagger in his heart: a dagger with a lily-shaped pattern on the handle of which was laid out in rubies.2. Ravaillac's Knife (Translation: M Kozhevnikova) Florentine Lorenza marries the noble Baron Thomas de Courcy and, contrary to an ominous omen, finds long-awaited happiness. But the fragile family well-being of the newlyweds was short-lived: the baron must urgently leave France and carry out the personal order of Henry IV at any cost.