by Robert Merle · LGF · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253136828
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«L'Idole» is the historical novel by Robert Merle, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (470 pages, in French).
In sixteenth-century Italy, Vittoria, whose extraordinary beauty arouses adoration and curses, is sold, spied on, slandered, and imprisoned in a male-dominated society. Around her parade Rome, Florence, lords, bandits, monsignori, and ambassadors, up to the reforming pope Sixtus V.
The original edition was published in 1986; this paperback edition appeared in 1995. Robert Merle is also the author of the Fortune de France series.
A work for readers of historical fiction interested in the Italian Renaissance and in Robert Merle's narrative.
Merle Robert Travis was an American country and western singer, songwriter, actor, and guitarist. Born in Rosewood, Kentucky, his songs' lyrics were often about the lives and the economic exploitation of American coal miners. Among his many well-known songs and recordings are "Sixteen Tons", "Re-Enlistment Blues", "I Am a Pilgrim", and "Dark as a Dungeon". He is best known today, though, for his unique guitar style, still called Travis picking by guitarists, as well as his interpretations of the rich musical traditions of his native Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Travis picking is a syncopated style of guitar fingerpicking rooted in ragtime music in which alternating chords and bass notes are plucked by the thumb, while melodies are plucked by the index finger. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970 and elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1977.
