by Maria Angels Anglada · Destino CAT · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423319985
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«L'agent del rei» is the historical novel by Maria Àngels Anglada, published by Destino CAT in paperback (143 pages, in Catalan).
The narrator traces Andreu Febrer, diplomat, writer and translator of the Divine Comedy into Catalan, through documents, testimonies and poems. His origins, his love for Chiara and his missions as the king's agent across the 15th-century Mediterranean emerge. Historical narrative and philological research, and a tribute to Renaissance humanism.
2006 edition of a work originally published in 1991; number 37 in the L'Ancora collection.
For readers of historical fiction and Catalan literature, especially those interested in humanism and Mediterranean culture.
Maria Àngels Anglada was a Catalan poet and novelist. She was born in Vic, Spain, in 1920. She received a degree in Classical Philology at the University of Barcelona. Her first novel, Les Closes , won the 1978 Josep Pla Award. Her 1985 novel Sandàlies d'escuma won the Lletra d'Or Prize. She died in 1999.
