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DORMIR CON VUESTROS OJOS
Maquiavelo, Caterina Sforza, los Borgia... los hilos de una conspiración que dejó huella en la historia
As he tosses and turns on his deathbed, Niccolò Machiavelli watches his extraordinary life pass before his eyes: books, politics, women... He was the most brilliant diplomat among Florence's lords and ladies. But his life ends with a devastating defeat: the Sack of Rome in 1527.
In this confusion of reality and delirium, he tries to understand the vertigo that was his life. The great men he dealt with: popes, mercenaries, Pope Alexander VI and Cesare Borgia, above all. The women he loved: Barbera Salutati, the teenage actress who says she only wants to "sleep with the eyes" of the chancellor, and that she will stay with him to the end of his life; Yllka, the androgenous Albanese female warrior who was his comrade-in-arms in the most difficult moments ...; and, above all, the enigmatic shadow of the Countess of Forli and Lady of Imola, Caterina Sforza, whose alchemistic arts fascinated him almost as much as her beauty.
And, by recalling Sforza, a memory comes to Machiavelli of an enigma that upsets him: the assignment he couldn't deliver on time. A gift from Caterina to Pope Borgia. What enigma was contained in the portrait by Leonardo Da Vinci of "La Bella Principessa" Bianca Sforza, prematurely dead before giving birth for the first time? Why was that commission so important ? What mortal fate haunted the exquisite portrait by Leonardo that Chancellor Machiavelli delivered too late?
Machiavelli is going to die. He's lived more than almost anyone can say they have. He does need, however, in these final hours, to put together the last puzzle: the portrait by Leonardo. And, in this labyrinth, his love stories, and his diplomatic battles, and his wars, and the murky universe of betrayal and poison, compose shards of a mirror of the beauty and horror of this world he now abandons without fear and without hope.
Gabriel Albiac (Utiel, 1950) was a professor of Philosophy at the Complutense University until his retirement. He has written numerous books on philosophy, mostly about the 16th and 17th centuries. For one of them, La sinagoga vacía (The Empty Synagogue), he won the National Prize for Literature in the Essay category. He is also the author of a critical edition of Blaise Pascal's Pensées. He has published several novels, and a short book of poems. His writings have been translated into English, French, Italian and Turkish. Since 1989 he has been a columnist in the most important nationwide circulation newspapers. he has won the González Ruano Award and the Mariano de Cavia Awards.
In this confusion of reality and delirium, he tries to understand the vertigo that was his life. The great men he dealt with: popes, mercenaries, Pope Alexander VI and Cesare Borgia, above all. The women he loved: Barbera Salutati, the teenage actress who says she only wants to "sleep with the eyes" of the chancellor, and that she will stay with him to the end of his life; Yllka, the androgenous Albanese female warrior who was his comrade-in-arms in the most difficult moments ...; and, above all, the enigmatic shadow of the Countess of Forli and Lady of Imola, Caterina Sforza, whose alchemistic arts fascinated him almost as much as her beauty.
And, by recalling Sforza, a memory comes to Machiavelli of an enigma that upsets him: the assignment he couldn't deliver on time. A gift from Caterina to Pope Borgia. What enigma was contained in the portrait by Leonardo Da Vinci of "La Bella Principessa" Bianca Sforza, prematurely dead before giving birth for the first time? Why was that commission so important ? What mortal fate haunted the exquisite portrait by Leonardo that Chancellor Machiavelli delivered too late?
Machiavelli is going to die. He's lived more than almost anyone can say they have. He does need, however, in these final hours, to put together the last puzzle: the portrait by Leonardo. And, in this labyrinth, his love stories, and his diplomatic battles, and his wars, and the murky universe of betrayal and poison, compose shards of a mirror of the beauty and horror of this world he now abandons without fear and without hope.
Gabriel Albiac (Utiel, 1950) was a professor of Philosophy at the Complutense University until his retirement. He has written numerous books on philosophy, mostly about the 16th and 17th centuries. For one of them, La sinagoga vacía (The Empty Synagogue), he won the National Prize for Literature in the Essay category. He is also the author of a critical edition of Blaise Pascal's Pensées. He has published several novels, and a short book of poems. His writings have been translated into English, French, Italian and Turkish. Since 1989 he has been a columnist in the most important nationwide circulation newspapers. he has won the González Ruano Award and the Mariano de Cavia Awards.
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