Tracy Chevalier - The Lady and the Unicorn Title THE LADY AND THE UNICORN
AUTHOR: Tracy Chevalier
Translated by Massimo Ortelius
ISBN 88-7305-936-3 288 Pages Publisher
Blacks Pozza
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THE AUTHOR Tracy Chevalier was born in Washington.
In 1984 she moved to England, where he worked for many years as editor.
With Girl with a Pearl Earring (Blacks Pozza, 2000) has obtained, in many countries where the book appeared, a huge success with audiences and critics.
international bestsellers were also his later novels:
Falling Angels (Blacks Pozza, 2002)
The Lady and the Unicorn (Blacks Pozza, 2003).
The Virgin Blue is his first novel
One page of the book seems a hatchet's jaw Jean Le Viste, his eyes are knife blades. Darted here and there in the room. At the end you are resting on the window behind me.
"I intend to discuss a job with you, Nicolas des Innocents, 'he said, rolling up the sleeves of her dress decorated with rabbit fur and deep red color typical of lawyers. "For this room."
I looked around, without leaking any impression. It is always convenient when you are in front of Jean Le Viste.
"What you have in mind, Monseigneur?"
'Tapestry'
. I had not noticed the use of the plural. "Maybe a couple of coats of arms with your signs, hanging on either side of the door?"
Jean Le Viste has made a face and I am sorry to have spoken.
"I want to cover these walls with tapestry."
"All?"
"Yes."
I redid the room with a glance around this time more carefully. La Grande Salle was not less than ten feet long and five wide. The walls made of stone here, gray and rough, they were very thick. On one of the long walls opened three windows, while the bottom half was occupied by the chimney. To weave the tapestries are necessary to cover the room a craftsman would take several years.
"What would you like to party, Monseigneur?"
I had already designed a tapestry for Jean Le Viste, a coat of arms, of course. It was not difficult to enlarge the size of the arms giving him a tapestry and drawing a bit 'of vegetation as a backdrop.