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Three characters in search of love and immortality

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Three characters in search of love and immortality
9.99 €
What do they have in common? At first glance, nothing. A medieval princess is taken somewhere for some reason, she finds herself in a completely different world, in Renaissance Italy and there meets with.... In the middle of the XVIII century smart widow skillfully and tastefully conducts business publishing house in a French provincial town. All she goes according to a well thought out plan and suddenly... A Polish philologist, born in London at the end of the XIX century, looks out of the windows of his Roman apartment on the Aventine Hill and dreams of something. Then, at the risk of his life, he descends the stairs, goes out into the street and then ... Three characters, three stories, three eras, three different countries; three styles of life, thoughts, feelings; three modus operandi of narration peculiar to those countries and those times. So what do they have in common? Only one thing. In the confusion of circumstances and events, all three are searching for love and immortality. Olga Medvedkova is a novelist, historian of art and architecture, and senior researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research.
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