"Splendid"?-- New York Times "[A]?novel without boundaries." -- O , the Oprah Magazine "Mind-bending."?-- Wall Street Journal A daring, kaleidoscopic novel about the clash of empires and ideas, told through a tennis match in the sixteenth century between the radical Italian artist Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo, played with a ball made from the hair of the beheaded Anne Boleyn. The poet and the painter battle it out in Rome before...
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