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Scarpia

By Read, Piers Paul

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Scarpia

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'Marvellously comic, superbly inventive . One of the most arresting British novelists' The Times 'Undoubtedly one of the most talented novelists of his generation' Sunday Telegraph Based on one of the central figures from Tosca, Puccini's classic opera, Scarpia is a powerful story of love, lust and political intrigue set in Rome after the French Revolution Man is a delicate mechanism. he can easily be set off course. It is the late 18th century and a young Sicilian nobleman, Vitellio Scarpia, finds himself penniless and in disgrace on the streets of Rome. After leaving his home to pursue a military career, his impulsive and undisciplined nature has led to his expulsion from Spanish royal guard, and he must now seek his fortune in Italy; a fortune inseparably bound up with the ruler of the Eternal City, the Pope. Scarpia enrols in the Papal army and becomes the lover of an alluring countess who introduces him into Roman society with its blend of religiosity, sophistication and intrigue. Half-enthralled, half-appalled, Scarpia enjoys the life of the decadent city, learning in due course that as an unsophisticated provincial he is no match for the worldliness of Rome. Patronized by a powerful Cardinal, Scarpia is sent on a mission to Venice, where he encounters the beautiful, exquisitely gifted singer, Floria Tosca. As the armies of revolutionary France invade Italy, and war and revolution engulf the whole peninsula, the lives of the two become fatefully entwined. Piers Paul Read brilliantly reimagines the infamous villain of Puccini's opera, Tosca, telling a story that shines a light into the dusty corridors of history and the dark corners of the human soul.
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Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
384
Release Date:
2016-08-25
Publication Date:
2017-05-16
Publisher:
Bloomsbury USA
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1408867516
ISBN13:
9781408867518
Weight:
261 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
199 cm
Thickness:
27 cm

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