by Eduardo Gil Bera · Ediciones Martínez Roca · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788427028197
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«Torralba» is a historical novel by Eduardo Gil Bera, published by Ediciones Martínez Roca in paperback (331 pages, in Spanish).
The novel recreates the life of Eugenio Torralba, a 16th-century physician and astrologer, between the court of Charles I and the Sack of Rome in 1527. His journey serves to explore ambition, power, religion and science in an era of profound change and conflict.
The novel was published in 2002 and received the Alfonso X the Wise National Prize for Historical Fiction that same year.
For readers interested in the Renaissance, 16th-century Europe and the tensions between religion and power.
