Title : The Princess - Peter Prange - book

Summary :

In refined 17th-century Rome, two talented artists vie for the title of first architect. Bernini is an accomplished master whose superiority is recognized by both the Church and the aristocracy; his student, Francesco Borromini, introverted and gifted, dares not break free. Brilliant and destructive, the two men fall in love with the same young woman, Clarissa Mac Kingsley, an English princess visiting the Eternal City. They court her in a manner full of contrasts. Bernini, an unabashed and seductive libertine, oscillating between purity and vice, offers her the discovery of new worlds, flattering her young conscience. Francesco, working on the colossal redevelopment of Piazza Pamphili, confides in the young woman with the ambiguity of a shy person. But the Vatican plays on the rivalry between the two artists, the shadow of the papacy, and the intrigues of power will disrupt both certainties and hopes. By blending fiction and historical fact, Peter Prange captivatingly retraces the intrigues of a Rome at the height of its artistic and religious development.

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