English art scholar Jonathan argyll was amazed to find himself arrested for vagrancy-while searching for a long-lost raphael in a tiny Roman church. Although general Bottando of the Italian national art theft squad has l...English art scholar Jonathan argyll was amazed to find himself arrested for vagrancy-while searching for a long-lost raphael in a tiny Roman church. Although general Bottando of the Italian national art theft squad has little confidence In Jonathan's theories, Bottando's lovely assistant, flavia di stefano, is intrigued by the idea of a lost classic, and by Jonathan himself.