The Historical Novelist
Gerardo Manzowriting what's missing between the lines of criminal records, biased chronicles, and stories history left out... historical fiction research and forgotten lore.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 74 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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Beyond That Door, We Are All the Same: Naples and the Day of the Dead
Cimitero delle Fontanelle
I was nine or ten, at my grandma’s house, when I came across a book as thick as my pinkie finger. Its red spine was squeezed between a collection of art history and World War books that my uncle kept on the top sh...
The Don of Baroque Naples: How a Broke Spaniard Took Over the City’s Art World
The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, Ribera, 1634 - National Gallery of Art
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Welcome to the The Criminal Lives of Painters — a weekly walk through the art, viol...
How Caravaggio Turned a Massacre into a Single, Unbearable Death: The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula
Caravaggio, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula (1610)
🎧 Before you read: press play for two minutes of backstory. It’s about a melted varnish, a fugitive painter, and a boat that never reached Rome.
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Feminine Rage on Canvas: The Radical Power of Artemisia’s Judith
Welcome to the The Criminal Lives of Painters — a weekly walk through the art, violence, and buried stories of Baroque Naples, gathered as research for the novel I’m writing. Each week: one painting, one crime, one life history left out....
The Painter Who Killed a Man After a Tennis Match
The Cardsharps - Caravaggio - 1596-1597 - Kimbell Art Museum
He sometimes looked to get his neck broken or put someone else’s life at risk…
He and his young crowd had the run of the streets, tough and high-spirited people - painters and f...
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Novelist raised in southern Italy near Napoli, now in NYC. Writing my debut novel, set in 17th-century Baroque Naples.
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