Caterina (Spanish Edition) - Carlo Vecce

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Résumé :
The incredible story of Caterina, a girl born in the Caucasus. Her language was the oldest in the world and she was destined to be a warrior like her ancestors had been, but she was violently dragged into history one day. Captured in Tana, the last Venetian colony on the outlet of the river Don, Caterina begins a wonderous journey through the Mediterranean and the Black Sea to reach Florence in full Renaissance splendor. Turned slave by merchants, she had several illegitimate children, but one of them, fruit of her union with a distinguished Florentine notary, was her most beloved, even though he could never call her mother because of her status as slave. That boy, to whom she passed on all her knowledge on creatures and nature, was called Leonardo da Vinci.--Provided by publisher....

Biographie:
Carlo Vecce es uno de los mayores estudiosos en el mundo de la ?poca renacentista, y se ha dedicado sobre todo a la figura y la obra de Leonardo da Vinci. Ha sido profesor en la universidad de la Sorbona, la Universidad de Los ?ngeles, el Institute of Advanced Studies de Durham y en la ?cole Normale Sup?rieure de Lyon. Es autor, con Carlo Pedretti, de Il libro di pittura; Codice Arundel, y de numerosos ensayos, como el reciente La biblioteca di Leonardo. Ha dirigido programas de cooperaci?n cultural en India y China, y es miembro de la prestigiosa Accademia dei Lincei, donde encabez? un proyecto de reconstrucci?n de la biblioteca de Leonardo que condujo a la organizaci?n de exposiciones en la propia Academia, en el Museo Galileo de Florencia, en la Universidad de Stanford y en el Instituto Max Planck de Berl?n. Actualmente ense?a Literatura Italiana en la Universit? Orientale de N?poles. Caterina es su primera novela.