Quattrocento (Spanish Edition)

Susana Fortes

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9781536664874: Quattrocento (Spanish Edition)

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En la Florencia del siglo XV, la de Botticelli y Leonardo, se est� preparando una conspiraci�n pol�tica y religiosa que podr�a cambiar la Historia del Renacimiento italiano: la que instigaron los Pazzi y el papa Sixto IV contra el poder de los M�dicis. S�lo asesinando a Lorenzo el Magn�fico se podr�a dominar la econom�a de todo el orbe cristiano. En la Florencia del siglo XXI, una estudiante prepara su tesis sobre un pintor de turbio pasado. Antes de verse envuelta en una investigaci�n policial y de ser perseguida por los sicarios del Vaticano, descubre a trav�s de un misterioso cuadro, qui�n fue el verdadero instigador de la conjura perpetrada bajo la mayor c�pula sagrada de toda la cristiandad.

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About the Author

Susana Fortes (Pontevedra, Spain, 1959) graduated in Geography and History at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, and in American History from the Universidad de Barcelona. She has recently spent time in the USA, combining teaching Spanish in Louisiana and participating in university conferences at the Universidad Interestatal de San Francisco. She currently teaches at a secondary school in Valencia. With her first novel, Querido Corto Malt�s (Dear Corto Malt�s), she won the 1994 Premio Nuevos Narradores. In 2001 she was shortlisted in the Premio Primavera awarded by Espasa for her novel, Fronteras de arena (Borders of Sand). She has also published Las cenizas de la Bounty (Ashes of the Bounty; Espasa, 1998), Tiernos y traidores (Tender Traitors; Seix Barral, 1999) and the screenplay Adi�s, mu�eca (Ciao, Doll; Espasa, 2002). With her novel El amante alban�s (The Albanian Affairs) she was short-listed for the Premio Planeta 2003. Her novels have been translated into English, Dutch, French, Norwegian, Greek, German, Italian, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Chinese (Simplified and Complex) Polish, Hungarian, Croatian, Turkish, Hebrew, Russian and Korean. Susana is a regular contributor to the newspaper El Pa�s, as well as various cinema and literature magazines.

Her novel El azar de Laura Ulloa (The Fate of Laura Ulloa), Planeta 2006, won the Premio de la Cr�tica and has been translated into several languages. Quattroccento (Planeta, October 2007) and her last novel Waiting for Robert Capa (Planeta, 2009), winner of the Premio Fernando Lara 2009, have been translated into 12 languages and are best-seller in many countries.

Film rights of Waiting for Robert Capa have been sold to Forward Pass (Michael Mann's production company) and Columbia Pictures. The screenplay is written by Jez Butterworth.

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