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Lisario o il piacere infinito delle donne
“Lisario, or the Infinite Pleasure of Women” (title translated by AI)
Antonella Cilento (born 1970)
English editions
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Lisario Morales has been mute since a botched operation, but she secretly reads Cervantes and writes letters to the Madonna. Whenever she cannot resist the violence of adults, she falls asleep, as she does when she is first offered in marriage. Asleep for months, like a fairy-tale heroine, she is entrusted to Avicente Iguelmano, a failed doctor who has come to seventeenth-century Naples to rebuild his reputation. His cure, at once the most predictable and the most illicit, works, but it opens before his superstitious mind an abyss of fears, all rooted in the mystery of female pleasure, while the city rises against its rulers.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 297 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy, 17th century
- First published
- 2014 by Mondadori
- Author's age
- 44 when first published
- ISBN
9788804634478 (original)
- More
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