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Nicolas Eymerich, Inquisiteur
Nicolas Eymerich est l'inquisiteur general d'Aragon, au service de l'Eglise catholique qu'il sert de maniere rigide: il obeit strictement aux regles edictees et traque tous les heretiques dans le sud de l'Europe et, particulierement, en France. Aussi perspicace que Sherlock Holmes, l'inquisiteur va devoir faire face a des manifestations troublantes, apparemment surnaturelles...
Tour de force de Valerio Evangelisti qui a su integrer un personnage authentique (l'inquisiteur et theologien catalan mort en 1399) dans une trame fictive en trois recits paralleles, les cinq premiers tomes des aventures de Nicolas Eymerich sont reunis pour la premiere fois en un volume.
Nicolas Eymerich, inquisiteur a obtenu le Grand prix de l'Imaginaire en 1999.
Original et audacieux, ce livre reunit avec bonheur le policier historique et la science-fiction. NooSFere.org
Une oeuvre incontournable, a lire ou relire de toute urgence. ActuSF.com
Ce volume rassemble:
Nicolas Eymerich, inquisiteur
Les Chaines d'Eymerich
Le Corps et le Sang d'Eymerich
Le Mystere de l'inquisiteur Eymerich
Cherudek
Tour de force de Valerio Evangelisti qui a su integrer un personnage authentique (l'inquisiteur et theologien catalan mort en 1399) dans une trame fictive en trois recits paralleles, les cinq premiers tomes des aventures de Nicolas Eymerich sont reunis pour la premiere fois en un volume.
Nicolas Eymerich, inquisiteur a obtenu le Grand prix de l'Imaginaire en 1999.
Original et audacieux, ce livre reunit avec bonheur le policier historique et la science-fiction. NooSFere.org
Une oeuvre incontournable, a lire ou relire de toute urgence. ActuSF.com
Ce volume rassemble:
Nicolas Eymerich, inquisiteur
Les Chaines d'Eymerich
Le Corps et le Sang d'Eymerich
Le Mystere de l'inquisiteur Eymerich
Cherudek
1680 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published October 26, 2016
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About the author
Valerio Evangelisti
145 books204 followersValerio Evangelisti è stato uno dei più importanti scrittori italiani di genere fantasy e horror. Si è laureato in scienze politiche, indirizzo storico-politico, e ha intrapreso una carriera accademica interrotta verso il 1990, alternata all'attività di funzionario del Ministero delle finanze. Dopo avere numerosi saggi, si è dedicato interamente alla narrativa. Nel 1994 è uscito il suo primo romanzo, Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore, che ha vinto il Premio Urania. Sono seguiti seguiti altri numerosi romanzi, tradotti in più di dieci lingue.
Evangelisti earned his degree in Political Science in 1976 with a historical-political thesis. He was born in Bologna.
Until 1990 his career was mainly academic. He also worked for the Italian Ministero delle Finanze (Treasury Department). His first written works were historical essays, including five books and some forty articles. In 1993 his novel Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore won the Urania Award, which was established by Urania, Italy’s main science fiction magazine, with the aim of discovering new talent in the field. Urania published other novels of the series in the following years: Le catene di Eymerich ("Eymerich’s Chains", 1995), Il corpo e il sangue di Eymerich ("Eymerich’s Body and Blood", 1996), Il mistero dell'inquisitore Eymerich ("Eymerich’s Mystery", 1996), Cherudek (1997), Picatrix, la scala per l'inferno ("Picatrix, the Stairway to Hell", 1998), Il castello di Eymerich ("Eymerich’s Castle", 2001), Mater terribilis (2002). Most of the last ones were however first published as hardcover.
Nicolas Eymerich is a real historical character, member of the order of the Dominicans and inquisitor in the Spanish Inquisition. He was born in 1320 in Girona, Catalonia, and died in 1399. Evangelisti’s interpretation of his character is a cruel, ruthless, haughty, restless man, who acts mercilessly to protect the Catholic Church against perceived menaces of natural or supernatural origin. At the same time he shows an outstanding intelligence and a deep culture in his actions. In the novels of the series he investigates the mysterious phenomena of Medieval Europe, thus subtly influencing many of the historical events of that epoch; on many occasions the solution of the riddles comes up from stories which are narrated along with the main plot, normally set in the present and in the future. Evangelisti's atmospheres are normally dark, nightmarish, haunting.
Another success of 1999, also translated in several languages, is the Magus trilogy, a romanticized biography of the famous Middle Ages prophecies writer Nostradamus. The three novels, Il presagio ("The Omen"), L’inganno ("The Deceit") and L'abisso ("The Abyss") sold 100,000 copies in Italy.
Evangelisti's novels are greatly appreciated in France (where he won several literary awards), Spain, Germany and Portugal. He is currently the director of the Carmilla magazine. In the last years he has written some works which show his love for heavy metal music, namely the short stories collection Metallo urlante (referring to the French magazine Metal Hurlant) and the novels Black Flag and Antracite: they are set during the American Civil War and feature a new character, Pantera, a palero shaman. One of his latest novels, Noi saremo tutto ("We Shall Be All"), spans several decades of the last century, exploring the life of Eddie Florio, a gangster, against the background of the history of the trade unions and the workers' battles for civil rights.
Mexico is the setting for his next two novels, Il collare di fuoco ("The Fire Collar"), which was published in November 2005 and Il collare spezzato ("The Broken Collar", October 2006). In 2007 La luce di Orione was released, the ninth title in the Eymerich series, followed in 2010 by Rex tremendae maiestatis.
Tortuga, a novel about pirates of the Caribbean, was published in 2008.
Evangelisti earned his degree in Political Science in 1976 with a historical-political thesis. He was born in Bologna.
Until 1990 his career was mainly academic. He also worked for the Italian Ministero delle Finanze (Treasury Department). His first written works were historical essays, including five books and some forty articles. In 1993 his novel Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore won the Urania Award, which was established by Urania, Italy’s main science fiction magazine, with the aim of discovering new talent in the field. Urania published other novels of the series in the following years: Le catene di Eymerich ("Eymerich’s Chains", 1995), Il corpo e il sangue di Eymerich ("Eymerich’s Body and Blood", 1996), Il mistero dell'inquisitore Eymerich ("Eymerich’s Mystery", 1996), Cherudek (1997), Picatrix, la scala per l'inferno ("Picatrix, the Stairway to Hell", 1998), Il castello di Eymerich ("Eymerich’s Castle", 2001), Mater terribilis (2002). Most of the last ones were however first published as hardcover.
Nicolas Eymerich is a real historical character, member of the order of the Dominicans and inquisitor in the Spanish Inquisition. He was born in 1320 in Girona, Catalonia, and died in 1399. Evangelisti’s interpretation of his character is a cruel, ruthless, haughty, restless man, who acts mercilessly to protect the Catholic Church against perceived menaces of natural or supernatural origin. At the same time he shows an outstanding intelligence and a deep culture in his actions. In the novels of the series he investigates the mysterious phenomena of Medieval Europe, thus subtly influencing many of the historical events of that epoch; on many occasions the solution of the riddles comes up from stories which are narrated along with the main plot, normally set in the present and in the future. Evangelisti's atmospheres are normally dark, nightmarish, haunting.
Another success of 1999, also translated in several languages, is the Magus trilogy, a romanticized biography of the famous Middle Ages prophecies writer Nostradamus. The three novels, Il presagio ("The Omen"), L’inganno ("The Deceit") and L'abisso ("The Abyss") sold 100,000 copies in Italy.
Evangelisti's novels are greatly appreciated in France (where he won several literary awards), Spain, Germany and Portugal. He is currently the director of the Carmilla magazine. In the last years he has written some works which show his love for heavy metal music, namely the short stories collection Metallo urlante (referring to the French magazine Metal Hurlant) and the novels Black Flag and Antracite: they are set during the American Civil War and feature a new character, Pantera, a palero shaman. One of his latest novels, Noi saremo tutto ("We Shall Be All"), spans several decades of the last century, exploring the life of Eddie Florio, a gangster, against the background of the history of the trade unions and the workers' battles for civil rights.
Mexico is the setting for his next two novels, Il collare di fuoco ("The Fire Collar"), which was published in November 2005 and Il collare spezzato ("The Broken Collar", October 2006). In 2007 La luce di Orione was released, the ninth title in the Eymerich series, followed in 2010 by Rex tremendae maiestatis.
Tortuga, a novel about pirates of the Caribbean, was published in 2008.
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