by Laura Mancinelli · Einaudi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806152321
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«Il principe scalzo» is the novel by Laura Mancinelli published by Einaudi in paperback, with 138 pages, in Italian.
A young prince and an elderly abbot read the Song of Songs and dream of peace in Lebanon. The prince will become Henry IV and pay for power with endless unhappiness, between humiliation before Pope Gregory VII and a hostile court. Matilda of Canossa appears as a secret, sensual love in a story of melancholy and solitude.
It belongs to the «I coralli» collection (no. 112) and was published in 1999.
For those seeking a historical novel centred on Henry IV, with a free recreation of Matilda of Canossa and a melancholic tone.
Laura Mancinelli was an Italian writer, Germanist, medievalist and university professor.
