by Mika Waltari · GRIJALBO MONDADORI · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788425330797
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«Juan el peregrino» is the historical novel by Mika Waltari, published by Grijalbo Mondadori in paperback (476 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Juan, a man without a past or a name of his own who feels only passion for knowledge. After entering the service of the scholar Nicholas of Cusa, he becomes embroiled in the theological and political disputes of the Council of Basel, and his path leads him from the decadent Constantinople of the mid-fifteenth century to Ferrara and Florence.
Novel belonging to the Johannes Angelos series, originally published as Nuori Johannes.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction interested in the end of the Byzantine Empire and the religious disputes of the fifteenth century.
Mika Toimi Waltari was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian. He was extremely productive; Besides his novels he also wrote poetry, short stories, crime novels, plays, essays, travel stories, film scripts, and rhymed texts for comic strips by Asmo Alho.
