by Mary Novik · Newton Compton Editori · tapa dura · ISBN 9788854151826
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«L'amante del papa» is the historical novel by Mary Novik, published by Newton Compton Editori in hardback (330 pages, in Italian).
Solange, an orphan raised by Benedictine nuns in Avignon, flees at fifteen to work as a scribe. She falls in love with Petrarch in a triangle with Laura, and ends up a courtesan. Lover and confidante of Pope Clement VI, she enters European intellectual circles, until intrigues and the Black Death drag her into a conspiracy.
The work, originally published as «Muse», appeared in the Nuova narrativa Newton collection with translation by Elisabetta Colombo and Monica Ricci.
For readers of historical fiction set in the fourteenth century, with a female protagonist and a backdrop of papal power, art, and plague.
