Le catene di Eymerich

core novel 1995 Nicolas Eymerich

Record

First published	1995
Original language	IT
Work type	novel
Canon status	core
Reader rating	3.78 (786 ratings, collected 2026-11-04)
Internal chronology	2

Synopsis

In 1365 the newly appointed Inquisitor General of Aragon, Nicolas Eymerich, is sent to Châtillon in the Aosta Valley to investigate a Cathar sect that has survived centuries of persecution. There he faces semi-human hybrids who appear to be immortal. The medieval plot is interwoven with twentieth-century threads: a Nazi scientist, Jacob Graf, who fled to Guatemala after the war, and the aftermath of the Ceausescu regime in Romania. As the storylines converge, the investigation leads toward the discovery of one of the gravest crimes against humanity.

Where it sits

• Universe: Nicolas Eymerich
• Series: Ciclo di Eymerich core; position 2 of 12 in the series' recorded order
• Author: Valerio Evangelisti

Notes

• First published in Italy by Mondadori in 1995.
• 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 2 of 12: previous Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore (1994) · next Il corpo e il sangue di Eymerich (1996)

Sources

• Wikipedia: Valerio Evangelisti
• Wikipedia (it): Ciclo di Eymerich
• Wikipedia (it): Le catene di Eymerich

← Nicolas Eymerich dossier · All universes

Part of the Library. Fields without an identified source are omitted, never guessed.