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In the summer of 1643, the young Piedmontese Roberto de la Grive survives a shipwreck on a deserted vessel in the South Seas. Surrounded by unknown animals and strange machines, he makes landfall on an unreachable, dreamlike island. Through letters addressed to the 'Lady,' Roberto gradually unveils his past—filled with duels, sieges, romantic entanglements, and salon disputes—setting the stage for a slow, traumatic initiation into the new world of science, statecraft, and espionage networks. The novel tackles the Thirty Years' War, the machinations of Mazarino and Richelieu, and the emergence of a cosmology in which the Earth ceases to be the center of the universe.
First publish date: March 1, 1996
Genre: Adventure Fiction/Exploration Adventure
Authors: Umberto Eco
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