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Opus Nigrum

by Marguerite Yourcenar

ISBN13: 9788466301831
ISBN10: 8466301836

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This historical novel presents the life of an imaginary Renaissaance physician, Zeno of Bruges, and reflects Yourcenar's fascination with the occult. Zeno's personality and life is a combination of DaVinci, Paracelsus, Copernicus, and Giordano Bruno. Through Zero's search for truth and the characters surrounding him, Yourcenar narrates life in the 16th century, perfectly reconstructing that time period in which the Middle Ages and Renaissance met.