The Black Book

The story of the adventures in the twilight of the eighteenth century of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and his young Italian nurse of a similarly uncertain birth They lead us in their wake from Rome to Paris from Lisbon to London from Parma to Venice Always followed in the shadows for obscure reasons by a suspiciouslooking Calabrian and a troubling cardinal they make us explore the dark intrigues of the Vatican the pangs of a fatal passion a gruesome duel banter at the court of Versailles and the convulsions of the French Revolution