Title : The Giudecca Manuscript - Yvon Toussaint - book

Summary :

The life of Cardinal Girolamo Aleandro was a grueling cavalcade from one end of Europe to the other. A scholar and a great official of the Church, he crossed paths with an emperor, four popes, a handful of kings, and most of the humanists who illuminated the Renaissance. He was in turn rector of the Sorbonne, chancellor of the Bishop of Liège, prefect of the Vatican Library, prosecutor against Luther at the Diet of Worms, witness to the capture of Francis I in Pavia, nuncio to Venice, and, despite a stubborn case of syphilis, the fulfilled lover of a beautiful Roman woman. Yet, the great passion of his life was... Erasmus. The two men met in Venice during their younger years. Each time they met again, it was to experience the same explosion of love and hate, the irrefutable marks of which their correspondence bears. The manuscript found in the foundations of the Giudecca in Venice reveals, in a shameless and ferocious tale, the secrets of this liaison between the flamboyant prelate and the most famous philosopher of his time. A great "novel of formation": that of the European spirit.

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