Un palacio en Venecia

Nacho Montes has written a novel that goes far beyond the fashion of the fabric genius that Fortuny was. With his usual grace, he makes his characters move to the whimsical, effervescent wheel of fortune. An early death, an unfinished painting, a historic auction in Paris, a popular café in Saint Mark's Square and a Venetian palace are the starting point of a dizzying plot in which random chance will eternally unite the protagonists of this story. . The singular life of the artist Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, son of the most important Spanish painter of his time and of the collector Cecilia de Madrazo, intersects with the extravagant existence of the Marchioness Luisa Casati, the most eccentric Italian aristocrat, muse and patron of Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. Both will join their destinies in the city full of art, spells and secrets that was the Venice of the Belle Époque.