I would recommend Cry to Heaven. I think you would like it Jeff. A young aristicrat from Venice is kidnapped and castrated by his older brother after the older one is passed over for the inheretance. He is taken to Florence? where he became a famous singer...his brother feared he would reveal what happened and attempted to have him murdered..there are a lot of twists and turns in the plot and castrati or no, our hero had a lot of sex, and was NO pushover...the final few pages? You won't put it down.
Thanks, Jess, that does sound like an interesting story. Wouldn't be the first novel I've read with a castrated central character, either. That would be Mary Renault's
The Persian Boy.I take it he's castrated so he can't have any offspring to inherit?