by Manuel Mujica Láinez · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481302769
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«Bomarzo, Vol. 1» is the historical novel by Manuel Mujica Láinez, published by Biblioteca El Mundo in hardcover (319 pages, in Spanish).
In Renaissance Italy, the hunchbacked Duke Pier Francesco Orsini, cultured and extravagant, creates the Garden of the Monsters beside his castle. The novel follows his adventures and misfortunes among princes, cardinals, condottieri and artists, offering a cynical and lucid view of power and politics in that era.
Volume 1 of the Bomarzo series. Includes a prologue by Roberto Bolaño. 2001 edition within the collection 'Las 100 mejores novelas en castellano del siglo XX'.
For readers of historical fiction and Latin American narrative, with an interest in the Italian Renaissance and the figure of Pier Francesco Orsini.
Manuel Mujica Lainez was an Argentine novelist, essayist, translator and art critic.
