Iain Pears Libros

Parte de la obra escrita en el siglo V por Manlio Hipómanes, sobre la virtud del hombre y la obligación de los sabios de preservar la civilización a través de la filosofía. Presenta el caso de otros dos hombres que a lo largo de la historia se enfrentaron al reto de salvaguardar los valores de su civilización agonizante.

Novela histórica con una trama criminal confronta los testimonios de cuatro hombres, actores de eventos dramáticos en la Inglaterra de los años 60 del siglo XVII. Robert Grove, un profesor universitario y clérigo, es hallado muerto en su habitación de la universidad en Oxford, víctima de envenenamiento por arsénico. Su exsirvienta y supuesta amante, que vive en la pobreza con su madre enferma, es acusada de su muerte. Esta peculiar joven, con habilidades curativas y hija de un rebelde asesinado, es llevada ante un jurado y condenada a muerte por ahorcamiento. Años después, cuatro hombres de distintos caracteres y valores reflexionan sobre esta tragedia en sus escritos. Un católico italiano, un estudiante de derecho de una familia noble empobrecida, un profesor de geometría y teología que colabora con la inteligencia para proteger al país de conspiraciones radicales, y un historiador archivista ofrecen sus perspectivas sobre los eventos de 1663, en un periodo de inestabilidad en Inglaterra tras la guerra civil, donde la monarquía enfrentaba amenazas por conflictos religiosos. El autor inglés, historiador del arte, fusiona ficción y hechos históricos en una obra impactante.

Oxford. Década de los sesenta. El profesor Henry Lytten intenta escribir una nueva historia de fantasía que supere la obra de sus predecesores, J. R. R. Tolkien y C. S. Lewis. Y encuentra una confidente en su vecina Rosie, una adolescente de quince años. Un día, mientras persigue al gato del profesor, Rosie encuentra una puerta en su bodega que le llevará a un mundo idílico, conocido como Anterworld, una tierra bañada por el sol de los narradores, las profecías y los rituales. Pero ¿es este acaso un mundo real? ¿Y qué pasa si ella decide quedarse? Mientras se embarca en una aventura que puede llevarla de vuelta a casa, en un laboratorio, un científico rebelde está tratando de probar que el tiempo (pasado, presente y futuro) no existe, con consecuencias potencialmente devastadoras.

John Stone, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to manipulate markets, industries and indeed whole countries and continents, has been found dead in mysterious circumstances. His beautiful young widow commissions a journalist to carry out an unusual bequest in his will but as he begins his research he soon discovers a story far more complex than he could have ever imagined... As the story moves backwards through time, from London in 1909 to Paris in 1809, before concluding in Venice in 1867, the mystery of John Stone's life and loves begins to unravel. The result is a spellbinding novel that is both a quest for the truth, a love story that spans decades and a compelling murder mystery.

The attempted sale of an obscure 18th-century painting goes murderously awry in this newest mystery starring impoverished art-dealer sleuth Jonathan Argyll, from the bestselling author of The Raphael Affair and The Titian Committee.

When art dealer Jonathan Argyll arrives in Los Angeles to drop off a painting, he discovers that there are a few devils loose in the City of Angels

Flavia di Stefano of Rome's Art Squad receives a tip-off that a raid is being planned on the monastery of San Giovanni. The raid takes place, but the thieves snatch the wrong painting, an unremarkable icon of the Madonna. Soon afterwards a French dealer is found murdered in the Tiber.

"When an important, politically sensitive painting is kidnapped in Rome, life takes a downward turn for Flavia di Stefano, acting head of the Italian Art Theft Squad." "Things start badly when Flavia is told to get the painting back at all costs without causing any embarassment to the country and without paying a ransom. Put in an impossible position, she turns for help to her old mentor General Taddeo Bottando, who is able to cast a wholly unexpected light on the crime. Flavia herself wonders if the subject of the painting, a classical landscape by Claude Lorraine, might be significant." "In the meantime, her husband, the English art historian Jonathan Argyll, embarks on an investigation of his own. As a gift to Bottando, he decides to establish the provenance of a small Renaissance painting, an Immaculate Conception, currently hanging on the wall of the general's apartment." "For both Argyll and Flavia, the search for the truth reveals shocking secrets from the past and leads them straight into the path of some very dangerous enemies indeed."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Flavia di Stefano of Rome's Art Theft Squad and art historian Jonathan Argyll have charmed mystery readers around the world. Their latest case is baffling to the extreme, when clues from a Titian researcher's death by mugging point to murder -- and a criminal conspiracy...

Someone's planning to raid an ancient monastery in Rome. But why? And when? Enter art expert Jonathan Argyll...

English art scholar Jonathan Argyll was amazed to find himself arrested for vagrancy-while searching for a long-lost Raphael in a tiny Roman church. Although General Bottando of the Italian National Art Theft Squad has little confidence in Jonathan's theories, Bottando's lovely assistant, Flavia di Stefano, is intrigued by the idea of a lost classic, and by Jonathan himself. But in the midst of the painting's discovery and the resultant worldwide publicity, a new chain of events is set into action. First vandalism, then murder, surround the painting. And as new facts about its true nature emerge, Bottando sends Flavia and Jonathan to investigate--little knowing that the pair will be on the run for the truth... and for their very lives.

A dark and disturbing novel of suspense, set at the turn of the 20th century, by the bestselling author of An Instance of the Fingerpost.

Oxford 1663: un luogo e un momento storico di grandi fermenti politici, scientifici e religiosi. Un docente del New College viene trovato morto in circostanze misteriose. Una ragazza è accusata di stregoneria e di omicidio, e condannata all'impiccagione. Quattro testimoni raccontano la loro "verità": un cattolico veneziano, Marco da Cola; uno studente in medicina, Jack Prestcott; un insigne matematico e teologo, John Wallis; uno studioso dell'antichità, Anthony Wood. Ma uno soltanto di loro dice tutta la verità... Thriller di alto profilo e sorprendente originalità, sospeso tra finzione narrativa e fedele ricostruzione storica, "La quarta verità" ricrea magistralmente l'atmosfera, ma anche e soprattutto la mentalità di un'epoca tra le più complesse e affascinanti.

Ein wertvolles Landschaftsgemälde wird aus einer Ausstellung in Rom gestohlen. Flavia di Stefano, Dezernentin für Kunstraub, muss den politisch heiklen Fall diskret lösen. Ihr Mentor General Bottando warnt vor möglichen Konsequenzen, bietet aber seine Hilfe an, bleibt jedoch bei der Herkunft eines anderen Gemäldes geheimnisvoll.

Marco da Cola, gentiluomo di Venezia, presenta i suoi rispettosi ossequi. È mio desiderio narrare del viaggio che feci in Inghilterra nell'anno 1663, degli avvenimenti di cui fui testimone e delle persone che conobbi; argomenti, spero, non indegni dell'attenzione di quanti osservano con interesse le bizzarrie del mondo. Al tempo stesso, intendo con questo mio resoconto smascherare le menzogne di coloro che annoveravo un tempo, erroneamente, fra i miei amici. Il mio resoconto, credo, parlerà da sé. Molte cose ometterò, tuttavia nulla di significativo. Coloro che in tempi successivi mi fecero del male, li descriverò come li conobbi allora; mi asterrò del lanciare accuse ed eviterò di abbandonarmi a polemiche; racconterò la verità.