The Vanishing of the Mona Lisa: A Novel - Brossura

Caparros, Martin

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0743297954 ISBN 13: 9780743297950

Casa editrice: Washington Square Press, 2011

Riassunto

Now in paperback, The Vanishing of the Mona Lisa is a captivating fictionalization of the greatest art theft of the twentieth century.

On August 22, 1911, the world was shocked by an unthinkable crime: Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, disappeared from the walls of the Louvre. While artists such as Picasso and Apollinaire were suspected of the theft, no arrests were made. Two years later an Italian, Vincenzo Peruggia, was detained when trying to sell the Mona Lisa to an antiques dealer in Florence—but the mystery of the theft itself was never satisfactorily resolved.

Fifteen years later, someone calling himself “the Marquis de Valfierno” cannot tolerate dying without the world knowing of his audacious exploits. And so, he decides to confide his life story to an American journalist: from his impoverished émigré origins as the son of a servant woman in Buenos Aires to his rise as the most dangerous conman in the world. Through a series of remarkable but evolving masks of identity, beginning as a marginal criminal of Argentina’s lower depths and ending up a wealthy aristocrat of the Belle Époque, first in Buenos Aires, then in Paris, he slowly transforms himself into “Valfierno.” Only then is he prepared to undertake the unthinkable, his own “masterpiece” of the criminal arts.

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L'autore

Martín Caparrós has worked for twenty-five years as a journalist for print, radio, and television. He has traveled through more than sixty countries and is the author of multiple memoirs and travelogues. He currently lives in his native Argentina.

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Book by Caparros Martin Reid Jasper

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Washington Square Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0743297954
• ISBN 13: 9780743297950
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352