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The biography The Life of Byron (1930) by André Maurois, is a detailed account of the life and works of the English Romantic poet George Gordon Byron (1788–1824).
Italy, 1492. Her name is Sancha of Aragon. The beautiful illegitimate daughter of Alfonso II. Napuljski only feels contempt for his father's callousness.
In 1506, Michelangelo Buonarroti was invited by Sultan Bayezid II to design a bridge across the Golden Horn in Constantinople. Furious at Pope Julius II who had humiliated him and refused to pay, Michelangelo left Rome and arrived by ship in Constantinopl
Susan Sontag's latest novel, inspired by the real-life Polish woman Helena Modjeska. Sontag, through an ironic, erudite style, explores emigration as an existential escape: America is not a paradise, but a mirror of European weaknesses.
The novel The Forgotten Girl is based on the real life of a member of New York's posh circles, who fought for the rights of Kunić, a group of women who survived the horrors of the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
Jiří Šotola's quasi-historical novel Pile on a Spit depicts the absurdity of life through the story of the antihero – the puppeteer Matija Pile (Matěj Kuře), a puppeteer of history during the Napoleonic Wars. The novel criticizes totalitarianism through b