Julia d’Aubigny, huérfana y amante del hombre más poderoso de la corte del Rey Sol; Chiripa, niña prodigio de la esgrima; Giulio Aubini, castrato en busca y captura por rapto, incendio y profanación de tumbas; la Maupin, primera contralto de la historia de la ópera, travesti y bisexual, musa de compositores y poetas, y amante de príncipes, monjas, generales y bandidos: cuatro...

Nel 1941 un soldato della Wehrmacht, Joe J. Heydecker, scavalca un muro e scatta le foto che testimonieranno il terribile esperimento del ghetto di Varsavia, nel cuore nero dell’Europa nazista. Intanto lo storico Emmanuel Ringelblum, imprigionato dietro quel muro con la famiglia, raccoglie dati, “contrabbanda storia” perché qualcuno la possa raccontare. Quasi mezzo secolo dopo John...

France, during the Thirty Years’ War: When Cardinal Richelieu sends Léon Bouthillier, his Secretary of State and chief spy, on a hazardous personal mission into enemy territory, Léon cannot anticipate he will have to track down and destroy a woman who is extremely dangerous to France’s interests, in order to recover a batch of letters which compromise the very safety of the realm. This...

Imagine that someone takes the most published book in history, and erases all the embedded fiction: he begins canceling the miracles; continues with those passages that are copies of earlier tales (like the Magi on December 25th); also eliminates the instrumental addings of the Evangelists, Paul and other Early Church Fathers, an so on. With the remaining after such a surgery, badly can be...