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El músico del duque de Mantua
El autor comienza su nueva novela con la muerte de Tiziano: en Italia, el brillo secular de las bellas artes se desvanece y las musas se vuelven hacia el nuevo arte: la música. en las últimas décadas del cinqeucento, Claudio Monteverdi, uno de los más grandes compositores de Italia hasta el día de hoy, parece ser el genio creativo de la ópera: se muda a Mantua a una edad temprana, donde un príncipe de sangre ligera pero vivaz (tan famoso en el Rigoletto) de un ejército casi anónimo de madrigalistas y da forma al “dramma per musica”, la ópera de hoy. Al pequeño pero resplandeciente patio de Mantua se le otorga el profundo valor histórico de las eternas figuras de Tasso, Monteverdi y Rubens. El compositor del Orfeo se traslada desde Venecia al ajetreo y el bullicio de este patio alegre pero amante del arte durante graves tragedias individuales para escribir su última obra maestra monumental, la Incoronazione di Poppeá, en el “carnaval eterno” de su vida. A la luz del destino de este gran compositor, esta época poco conocida, en la frontera entre el Renacimiento tardío y el Barroco temprano, fue recreada por la nueva y vasta novela histórica del autor.
520 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1966
About the author
László Passuth
49 books11 followersLászló Passuth (Budapest July 15, 1900 - Balatonfüred, June 19, 1979) was Hungarian and a prolific author of historical fiction and translator.
He graduated with a law degree from the University of Szeged. From 1919 to 1950 he worked mainly as a bank clerk and then, until his retirement, in a government office for translation. His first attempts as a writer appeared in the 1920s in several magazines. Passuth served as the main secretary of the Hungarian PEN Club from 1945–60, although he was expelled in 1948 from the Hungarian Writers’ Union in 1948 under the Stalinist take-over.
His first novel, Eurasia, published in 1937, was followed by a number of historical novels; they showed sophisticated style and attention to precise historical detail. In 1939, he published The Rain God Weeps over Mexico (Eng. Title, Tlaloc Weeps for Mexico), a novel about Cortez and the conquest of Mexico; it was his first work to attract international attention; it was translated into French, German, Spanish, and English. Among his some 40 novels are also Joan of Naples (1940), based on the life of the medieval queen, Joan I, and Madrigal (1968), a novel around the life of composer Carlo Gesualdo.
He graduated with a law degree from the University of Szeged. From 1919 to 1950 he worked mainly as a bank clerk and then, until his retirement, in a government office for translation. His first attempts as a writer appeared in the 1920s in several magazines. Passuth served as the main secretary of the Hungarian PEN Club from 1945–60, although he was expelled in 1948 from the Hungarian Writers’ Union in 1948 under the Stalinist take-over.
His first novel, Eurasia, published in 1937, was followed by a number of historical novels; they showed sophisticated style and attention to precise historical detail. In 1939, he published The Rain God Weeps over Mexico (Eng. Title, Tlaloc Weeps for Mexico), a novel about Cortez and the conquest of Mexico; it was his first work to attract international attention; it was translated into French, German, Spanish, and English. Among his some 40 novels are also Joan of Naples (1940), based on the life of the medieval queen, Joan I, and Madrigal (1968), a novel around the life of composer Carlo Gesualdo.
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