Il mistero dell'inquisitore Eymerich

core novel 1996 Nicolas Eymerich

Record

First published	1996
Original language	IT
Work type	novel
Canon status	core
Reader rating	3.79 (642 ratings, collected 2026-11-04)
Internal chronology	4

Synopsis

In 1354 Nicolas Eymerich accompanies King Peter IV of Aragon to Sardinia, where the Aragonese forces besiege Alghero to put down a revolt led by the judge Mariano d'Arborea. Mariano is backed by a mysterious, terrifying deity called Sardus Pater. The story is told across two timelines. In the twentieth century the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, who has fled the Nazis for America, makes a major scientific discovery and is imprisoned. In his cell he begins to experience hallucinations that appear to link him to the medieval inquisitor, and the two men's stories draw together.

Where it sits

• Universe: Nicolas Eymerich
• Series: Ciclo di Eymerich core; position 4 of 12 in the series' recorded order
• Author: Valerio Evangelisti

Notes

• First published in the Urania paperback series in 1996.
• 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 4 of 12: previous Il corpo e il sangue di Eymerich (1996) · next Cherudek (1997)

Sources

• Wikipedia: Valerio Evangelisti
• Wikipedia (it): Ciclo di Eymerich
• Unione Sarda: Evangelisti set Eymerich in Sardinia

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