by Fernando Fernán Gómez · ESPASA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788423979479
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«Cruz y el lirio dorado» is the historical novel by Fernando Fernán Gómez, published by Espasa in hardback (207 pages, in Spanish).
Florence, 1478. The Pazzi family plots the assassination of Giuliano and Lorenzo de' Medici, with the support of Pope Sixtus IV, Cardinal Riario and Archbishop Salviati. Father Maffei, tasked with carrying out the conspiracy, ends up as the scapegoat. The novel recreates Medici Florence and reflects on obedience, fear and ambition.
Published in 1999 in the Espasa Narrativa collection; edition by Espasa-Calpe (Madrid) with illustrated dust jacket.
Aimed at readers of historical fiction and the Italian Renaissance, and at followers of Fernando Fernán Gómez.
Fernando Fernández Gómez, better known as Fernando Fernán Gómez, was a Spanish actor, screenwriter, film director, theater director, novelist, and playwright. Prolific in all these fields, he was elected member of the Royal Spanish Academy in 1998. He was born in Lima, Peru while his mother, Spanish actress Carola Fernán-Gómez, was making a tour in Latin America. He would later use her surname for his stage name when he moved to Spain in 1924.
