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-- Artist and the assassin2021., The Porcupine's Quill Call No: Fic Fru Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A vibrant narrative based on the life of the seventeenth-century painter known as Caravaggio. His revolutionary use of the chiaroscuro technique fuelled his dazzling success while his demons let him down a path to exile and assassination. His innovative paintings and his blazing temper have made him powerful friends, but also powerful enemies who are determined to quench the flame of his talent.
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2006., Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Fru Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: brilliant novel packed with delights: grand romance, alchemical potions, violins to make you weep, commedia dellœarte theatre, reappearing comets, rambling skeletons and cracks in time.It is 1682 in Cremona, Italy. With his manservant, an insolent dwarf named Omero, Fabrizio Cambiati, a priest, climbs the town clocktower to await the return of a comet that is said to reappear in the skies every 76 years. He has a new invention called a telescope with which to scour the night. As they await the comet, he scopes the town below and sees the commedia dellœarte players setting up in the town square and a Jesuit arriving in a carriage. We later learn that the Jesuit is Michele Archenti, a Devilœs Advocate sent from Rome to investigate the candidacy for sainthood of this same Fabrizio Cambiati 76 years later! The novel then begins again, this time in 1758 when Archenti settles himself in the town to assume his investigations. It is his job to find the flaws in Fabrizioœs character. In this attempt, he interviews a number of citizens, including an old duchess who holds a secret about Fabrizioœs life that would ruin the reputation of this priest, who was both a hidden alchemist and healer. The play held in the town square connects the two time periods by reflecting the goings-on in the wider world. We meet the players, as well as the duke, his beautiful daughter, a happy madman roaming the countryside with a skeleton on his back, and a hunchback who lives with his mastiff in a labyrinthine palace that is, like imagination itself, continually mutating. With enormous assurance and a wonderful affection for his characters, Mark Frutkin has woven a miraculous tale that explores the ambiguous nature of reality and on every page packs joy into the reading.
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c1990., Mosaic Press Call No: 811.5408 S625 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Mosaic poetry series