The Chimera

by Sebastiano Vassalli

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Tags: Set in Italy Male author

The Chimera

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Offering a study of hypocrisy and evil, a comic novel of religious corruption and witchcraft in seventeenth-century Italy chronicles the fate of a young orphan named Antonia, who is burned at the stake in the town of Novara in 1610.

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