Bøger af Matteo Strukul

The third instalment in a series charting the rise of the House of Medici as they become Masters of Florence and progenitors of the Renaissance.

The second instalment in a trilogy charting the rise of the House of Medici as they become Masters of Florence and progenitors of the Renaissance.

Financiers of kings, godfathers of the Renaissance, arbiters of peace or war: Emperors in all but name. The first instalment in a trilogy charting the rise of Medici family as they become Masters of Florence.

Una ciudad diezmada por la enfermedad y la corrupción. Una diabólica conspiración que amenaza con derrocar a la poderosa aristocracia veneciana. La nueva novela del autor de Los Médici. Venecia, 1725. Mientras una epidemia de viruela siembra de víctimas la ciudad, el cuerpo sin vida de una mujer perteneciente a una de las familias más ilustres aparece en las aguas del Rio dei Mendicanti. El pintor Canaletto es convocado en la sede de los inquisidores del Estado. Uno de sus cuadros más recientes representa una escena en el lugar exacto en el que ha aparecido el cadáver de la mujer, y hay quien sospecha de la implicación del artista en el crimen. El dux en persona le encarga la misión secreta de investigar el homicidio y la presencia de cierto noble en la escena del crimen. En sus pesquisas, Canaletto descubrirá una ciudad desconocida. ¿Qué secretos se ocultan en los palacios venecianos? ¿Qué verdades deberían permanecer sepultadas? ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A city decimated by disease and corruption. A diabolic conspiracy that threatens to topple the powerful Venetian aristocracy. The latest novel by the author of The Medici. Venice, 1725. While a smallpox epidemic fills the city with victims, the lifeless body of a woman pertaining to one of the most illustrious families appears in the Rio dei Mendicanti. The painter Canaletto is summoned to the seat of the inquisitors. One of his most recent paintings depicts a scene on the exact spot where the woman's dead body was found, and there are some who suspect the artist's involvement in the crime. The dux himself entrusts him with the secret mission of investigating the murder and the presence of a certain nobleman at the scene of the crime. In his enquiries, Canaletto will unveil an unknown city. What secrets hide in Venetian palaces? What truths ought to remain buried?

Conspiración, traición, corrupción política bajo el techo de la sociedad aristócrata francesa. Matteo Strukul vuelve a sorprendernos con una historia llena de tensión, adrenalina y misterio con un retrato exquisito de los personajes y de la Francia del siglo XVII. El París del siglo XVII se sostiene sobre los pilares del vicio y la violencia. María de Médici, la reciente esposa de Enrique IV de Borbón, tiene que enfrentarse, nada más llegar a la corte, a la inquina de la favorita del rey, Henriette d'Entragues, quien no ha superado el que no pudiera convertirse en reina de Francia. Pero Henriette es el menor de los problemas de la joven reina consorte. Obligada a luchar contra la ambición de poder de la aristocracia y a salvaguardar el trono de las constantes conspiraciones, María de Médici se convertirá en una inteligente estratega política y una hábil y valiente defensora de sus derechos, máxime cuando la eterna sombra conspiratoria acabe con la vida de Enrique IV y convierta a María en reina regente de su hijo Luis XIII. En el cardenal Richelieu encontrará un feroz aliado, antes de que la oscura traición se cierna sobre ella y acabe con sus días de gloria y poder. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Conspiracy, betrayal, political corruption under the roof of the French aristocracy. Matteo Strukul returns to surprise us with a story charged with tension, adrenaline, and mystery, an exquisite portrait of his characters and seventeenth-century France. Paris in the XVII century stands on the pillars of vice and violence. Maria of Medici, Henry IV of Bourbon's new bride, must face--upon arriving to court--the malice of the king's favorite, Henriette d'Entragues, who cannot get over not becoming Queen of France. But Henriette is the least of the young Queen Consort's problems. Forced to fight the lust for power within the aristocracy and safekeep the throne from constant conspiracies, Maria of Medici will become a bright political strategist and a cunning and brave defender of her own rights, especially when the everlasting shadow of conspiracy ends Henry IV's life and makes Maria Queen Regent to her son Louis XIII. She will find a fearsome ally in Cardenal Richelieu until dark betrayals loom over her and put an end to her days of power and glory.

"1288. The city of Florence is in the hands of the Guelph leader Corso Donati, a man blinded by power and thirsty for the blood of his enemies, the Ghibellines. In this dark and convulsed setting lives Dante Alighieri, a brave young man born into a Guelf family and very committed to the political struggles that ravage the region. Although Dante is in love with love itself, poetry, and art, when duty calls him to participate in the decisive Battle of Campaldino, he has no choice but to demonstrate his courage and face his destiny in a fight that will set the course of Italy's history and will leave a profound mark on the heart and life of the poet. The conjunction of horror, the nightmares that he suffers because of barbarism, and the true love that he feels for Beatriz will be the bases on which he will begin to build his magnum opus, The Divine Comedy."--