by Hella S. Haasse · Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788435005739
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«La ciudad escarlata» is the historical novel by Hella S. Haasse, published by Edhasa in hardback (368 pages, in Spanish).
In the Italian wars, Giovanni Borgia, the enigmatic infans romanus, enters the service of Pope Clement VII in 1525. Tormented by his origins, Giovanni reconstructs the rise and fall of the Borgias, with family hatreds, nepotism and forbidden relationships, in a plot where love and art also intersect.
The work belongs to Edhasa's Narrativas Históricas collection, was translated into Spanish by Andre Martin Koster and was originally published in 1952 under the title «De scharlaken stad».
For readers of historical fiction interested in the Italian Renaissance, sixteenth-century politics and the Borgia legend.
Hélène "Hella" Serafia Haasse was a Dutch writer, often referred to as the "Grande Dame" of Dutch literature, and whose novel Oeroeg (1948) was a staple for generations of Dutch schoolchildren. Her internationally acclaimed magnum opus is Heren van de Thee, translated to The Tea Lords. In 1988 Haasse was chosen to interview the Dutch Queen for her 50th birthday after which celebrated Dutch author Adriaan van Dis called Haasse "the Queen among authors".
