The Lost Diary of Don Juan -

Douglas Carlton Abrams

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

2007

308 páginas

10h 16m

ISBN-13: 9780297851707

As gold from the Americas floods into the coffers of sixteenth-century Seville, the 'great Babylon of Spain', a masked man is seducting its women, from lowly servants to the king's own daughter, instructing them in the arts of passion.
That man is Don Juan, a libertine who has dedicated his life to the giving and receiving of plaesure. But this Don Juan is no heartless seducer - passion is a form of redemption, both for himself and for the women he worships.
Abandoned as an infant in the barn of a local convent, Don Juan is secretly raised by nuns, but his ambitions towards the priesthood fall to the wayside when he comes under the spell of a young nun. Evicted from the convent, he is taken under the wing of Don Pedro, the Marquis de la Mota, who tutors him in skills both courtly and amorous.
It is only through Don pedro's patronage that Don Juan receives the protection of the king - and only through the king tah he is spared the wrath of the Inquisition. For the streets of Seville are rank with the stench of its victims and the Inquisitor has made no secret of his desire to see Don Juan burn. Yet it is only when Don Juan embarks on the most perilous adventure of all - falling in love - that finds his life truly in danger.