Il corpo e il sangue di Eymerich
core novel 1996 Nicolas Eymerich
Record
| First published | 1996 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  IT |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.79 (696 ratings, collected 2026-11-04) |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
In 1358 Inquisitor Nicolas Eymerich is sent to Castres in southern France to destroy the Masc, a secret sect bound up with blood rituals. He carries out his task with a vast pyre that kills most of the townspeople, among them Cathars, the bishop and monks. A second storyline begins in the United States in 1952. Lycurgus Pinks, a former Ku Klux Klan member, plans to wipe out Black Americans by spreading sickle cell anemia. His scheme grows into a genetic mutation that becomes a global epidemic reaching everyone. The two plots remain separate for most of the book and meet only near the end.
Where it sits
- Universe: Nicolas Eymerich
- Series: Ciclo di Eymerich core; position 3 of 12 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Valerio Evangelisti
Notes
- First published in the Urania paperback series (no. 1281) in 1996; Urania issues carry no ISBN.
- From the series record (Ciclo di Eymerich): Twelve novels following the fourteenth-century inquisitor Nicolas Eymerich, each pairing a medieval plot with a modern or future one.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Ciclo di Eymerich: position 3 of 12: previous Le catene di Eymerich (1995) · next Il mistero dell'inquisitore Eymerich (1996)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Valerio Evangelisti
- Wikipedia (it): Ciclo di Eymerich
- Wikipedia (it): Il corpo e il sangue di Eymerich
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