La luce di Orione
core novel 2007 Nicolas Eymerich
Record
| First published | 2007 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  IT |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.54 (287 ratings, collected 2026-11-04) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9788804572992 |
| Internal chronology | 9 |
Synopsis
In 1366 Nicolas Eymerich is removed from his post as inquisitor after intrigues by Peter IV of Aragon. He travels to Padua for a Dominican chapter meeting, where he clashes with Petrarch over a disturbing painting, and then joins a crusade led by Amedeo of Savoy to relieve Constantinople. At the declining Byzantine court he finds political and esoteric plots built around the constellation Orion, the biblical hunter-king Nimrod and the Archangel Raphael, and a mystery tied to the Giants of Scripture. Two other threads run alongside: a far-future war in Iraq, a century old and fought with giants and monsters, and Professor Frullifer, released from an asylum by US Army officers to attempt an experiment on the star Betelgeuse.
Where it sits
- Universe: Nicolas Eymerich
- Series: Ciclo di Eymerich core; position 9 of 12 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Valerio Evangelisti
Notes
- Includes material first published separately as the story La sala dei giganti (2006).
- 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 9 of 12: previous Mater Terribilis (2002) · next Rex tremendae maiestatis (2010)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Valerio Evangelisti
- Wikipedia (it): Ciclo di Eymerich
- BookBrainz: La luce di Orione (Mondadori, 2007)
- Wikipedia (it): La luce di Orione
- Libraccio: publisher description
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