by Laura Mancinelli · Einaudi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806174064
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A young prince and an old abbot read the Song of Songs, dreaming of the sweet quiet of Lebanon. The young prince has a destiny already written: to become the most powerful man on earth at the price of endless unhappiness. The barefoot prince narrates the tormented reign of Henry IV, the struggles for succession to the throne, the emperor's conflict against his irrepressible enemy, Pope Gregory VII. And precisely in narrating the best known of public humiliations, the writer imagines a novelistic variant that makes Matilda of Canossa an enigmatic and sensual lover, the only true love in Henry's life. A novel full of melancholy and solitude, where the dream of happiness is no longer possible, distant and impalpable as the Lebanon of the Song of Songs.
Laura Mancinelli was an Italian writer, Germanist, medievalist and university professor.
