Bomarzo (novel)

{{short description|1962 novel by Manuel Mujica Lainez}}

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| author = Manuel Mujica Lainez

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| cover_artist = Lorenzo Lotto - [http://www.wikiart.org/en/lorenzo-lotto/portrait-of-a-gentleman-in-his-study Portrait of a Gentleman in his Study]

| country = Argentina

| language = Spanish

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| release_date = 1962

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Bomarzo is a novel by the Argentine writer Manuel Mujica Lainez, written in 1962 and later adapted by its author to an opera libretto set by Alberto Ginastera, which had its premiere in Washington, D.C., in 1967.

It is set in the eerie and surreal Italian Renaissance town and palace of Bomarzo and concerns the morally and physically deformed Pier Francesco Orsini, Duke of Bomarzo.

References

  • {{cite book|title=Encyclopædia Britannica|volume=8|pages=402–403|chapter=Mujica Láinez, Manuel|location=Chicago|year=1989}}


Category:1962 Argentine novels

Category:Novels by Manuel Mujica Lainez

Category:Argentine historical novels

Category:Novels set in Italy

Category:Lazio

Category:Novels adapted into operas

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