La Herejía de Miguel Ángel / Michelangelo's Heresy

"Rome, Fall 1542. At the age of sixty-seven, Michelangelo is called back to his duties: he must complete the tomb of Julius II, an ambitious work but postponed for almost forty years. Guidobaldo II, heir of the Della Rovere family, would not accept any further apologies from the artist. But Michelangelo finds himself in the sights of the Inquisition: his friendship with the beautiful Vittoria Colonna did not go unnoticed. Indeed, Cardinal Gian Pietro Carafa, head of the Holy Office, ordered the woman to be followed, with the aim of identifying the place where the Spirituals sect, led by Reginald Pole, who advocates the return to evangelical purity, meets. in a city where the sale of indulgences is commonplace. Precisely Rome devoured by vice and violated by the Landsknechts will be the cruel and magnificent theater which the lives of Malasorte, a young thief charged with spying on the Spirituals, of Vittorio Corsini, Captain of the city's cops, of Vittoria Colonna, marquise of Pescara, will intertwine in, and of Michelangelo Buonarroti himself, one of the most brilliant artists of his time. Tormented by his clients, hunted by the inquisitors, the greatest interpreter of Christianity will conceive the final version of the tomb of Julius II in a way that could even condemn him to the stake..." --