Mia Bianca Giulia
Giulia is beautiful. The farewell is heartbreaking. Guglielmo, tormented and proud talent in the shadow of Michelangelo, wants to eternalize the perfect woman in an extraordinary monument so that love can continuein marble. Their passion – woven with slow detachments and sudden returns – is an untameableflame, which Ada Grossi depicts against the backdrop of a great historical fresco: the Renaissance, which oscillates between the splendour of the nobility and the sinister flashes of the Wars of Religion, from Rometo Milan and the valleys around Lake Ceresio, from the persecution of a demonized man in Calvinist Geneva to a mysterious encounter with the Shroud of Turin in Savoy; and on to plague-ridden Milan, where the circle finally closes. Mia bianca Giulia (My white Julia) is a novel that openly questions themystery of artistic inspiration and the obsessions of memory: from its spirals of passion and redemption, the destiny of the protagonists will be transformed forever, on new, previously unthinkable horizons.
Ada Grossi has spent more than half of her life between historical studies, archives andlibraries: the worlds of her novels were born there. She made her debut with Centoquarantanove anni (One Hundred and Forty-Nine Years), a medieval adventure between the Crusader East and the Christian West, and Inferno a mezzanotte (Hellat Midnight), a thriller set between New York and Israel and revolving around the ancientmanuscripts of the Dead Sea.
