It is August 3, 1667. In his studio as a sculptor, painter, and architect, the elderly Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the greatest artistic authority of Baroque Rome, angrily evokes the shadow of the hated Francesco Borromini, the brilliant architect from Ticino. When the unexpected news of his death arrives, his anger gives way to compassion: the suicide of his rival leads him to reflect on the constant war between artists and to recognize the value of the man he has considered an enemy for a lifetime. Martinelli offers us a surprisingly contemporary 17th century: poised between the birth of New Science and the barbarization of the present.

Marco Martinelli

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