by Lorenzo De Medici · Zeta Bolsillo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498721850
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«El secreto de Sofonisba» is the historical novel by Lorenzo De Medici, published by Zeta Bolsillo in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
In 1624, the young Anton Van Dyck visits the elderly and blind painter Sofonisba Anguissola in Palermo, who tells him about her life at the Spanish court of Philip II. Years earlier, Pope Pius IV orders a secret mission in which Sofonisba, lady-in-waiting to Queen Isabel de Valois, acts as a messenger: a self-portrait of hers must confirm whether the Pope's secret is safe. Palace intrigues, rivalries among painters and corruption in the Vatican intertwine with the real story of a painter whom her era did not recognize for being a woman.
For readers of historical fiction set in the Renaissance and the sixteenth-century Spanish court.
