by Manuel Mujica Lainez · Seix Barral · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432248092
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«Bomarzo» is the historical novel by Manuel Mujica Lainez, published by Seix Barral in hardback (608 pages, in Spanish).
The novel by Manuel Mujica Lainez follows the hunchbacked duke Pier Francesco Orsini, a cultured and extravagant man of the Italian Renaissance, who creates near his castle the Wood of the Monsters. Among popes, condottieri and courtiers, the adventures and misfortunes of Pier Francesco Orsini serve to offer a cynical vision of power and politics.
This edition, with illustrated dust jacket, was published on 21 November 2000; the work originally appeared in 1962.
For readers of literary fiction with an interest in the history of the Italian Renaissance and fictionalised portraits of real characters.
Manuel Mujica Lainez was an Argentine novelist, essayist, translator and art critic.
