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In this award-winning novel, Mexican-born, New York-based Enrigue weaves history and speculation into several narrative threads, focusing primarily on three sets of tennis (substituting as a duel over a matter of honor) between the Italian artist Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Quevedo in 1599. A second stream aggregates a plethora of historical figures in a vivid re-creation of the intrigues and corruption of the Counter-Reformation, but Caravaggio, in many of who...Log In or Sign Up to Read More