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Luigi Bocherini. Vida de un genio
Luigi Boccherini: The Life of a Genius was awarded the Verbum Ibero-American Novel Prize in 2015, winning out over hundreds of high quality works. It is the fictional biography of one of the most interesting and passionate authors of international music, the Italian composer and cellist Luigi Boccherini, who lived and died in Spain, where he mixed with kings, nobles and people of great historical interest. Antonio Cavanillas Blas manages to intermingle history and fiction in a refreshing, highly dynamic and veracious narrative. Rigorously documented, the novel not only allows readers to find out about the Italian genius, but also an epoch full of contradictions; and people such as Luis Antonio de Borbón, Francisco de Goya, Cayetana de Alba, María Josefa Pimentel, Carlos III, Carlos IV, Godoy, among other contemporaries of Boccherini who made their mark on an impassioned, eventful era,…