Title: The Princess of Mantua - Marie Ferranti - book
Summary :
Grand Prix for novels from the French Academy 2002
"Barbara of Brandenburg, a Mantuan princess "with tired, yellow eyes, stretched toward the temples like those of cats," as she herself wrote about her portrait by Mantegna, is a mysterious woman. I cannot and do not want to tell here - and even less summarize - the story of her life. The reader is condemned to move on, or to read this book to satisfy his curiosity. I can only promise him that he will be astonished, without revealing the cause." Marie Ferranti.
