Eugênio Giovenardi

THE STONES OF ROME (eBook, ePUB)

A novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Stones of Rome reveals the hidden thoughts of a Sovereign Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church during the Renaissance. Between what a Chief of State thinks and does, space and time intervene, shrouded in ambiguities and contradictions that the machinery of government does not always record. This novel intersperses confidential accounts of an agnostic humanist who exposes himself as a man as he rises to become the Pope. He is the man behind the curtain of unquestionable religious power. The dwarf Serapica, knowledgeable of Latin and Greek, would have been the custodian of the secrets, confidential revelations, regrets and loves that his master and lord, Giovani de Medici - Pope Leo X - shared with his most intimate friends, Raphael and Michelangelo. The novel is based on fragments of the life of the first Florentine pope, restless, indecisive, a patron of art and literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Editora Kelps
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786558594468
• Artikelnr.: 62638132

Autorenporträt

EUGENIO GIOVENARDI (84) is a native of Casca, Rio Grande do Sul State (Brazil) and currently resides in Brasilia with his wife, Finish journalist and translator, Hilkka Mäki. He holds degrees in Philosophy, Theology and Sociology and is the author of 20 books. When he was 24 years old, he was ordained as a Catholic priest in the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (an offshoot of the Franciscans) and served as priest for seven years. When he was working on his doctorate in Sociology at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1968, he withdrew from the Religious Order and the Catholic church and became an apostate libertarian and agnostic. Subsequently, he spent thirty years supporting rural cooperatives and promoting the recuperation of biomes threatened with desertification. During his work on the recovery of degraded areas, he conducted extensive research on the processes of cooperation and competition between fauna and flora in the recovery of water sources. His methodology of suggested appropriate action is detailed in a booklet entitled Ecossociologia (Ecossociology). His first novel, The Forbidden Man was published in 1997 and translated into Spanish, English and Finnish. His second novel, In the name of blood (translated into Finnish) won the 2003 Azorean Prize for Literature, in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul State (Brazil). The author and his wife have one daughter, Aino Alexandra and two granddaughters, Luiza and Laura.