Sixteenth century Europe is teeming with change and controversy: wars are being waged by princes and bishops and the repercussions of Luther are being felt through a convulsing Germany. In a remote corner of Poland a modest canon is practicing medicine and studying the heavens, preparing a theory that will shatter the medieval view of the universe. In this astonishing work of historical imagination, John Banville offers a vivid portrait of a man of painful reticence, haunted by a malevolent brother and baffled by the conspiracies that rage around him and his ideas. For, in a world that is equal parts splendor and barbarism, an obscure cleric who seeks “the secret music of the universe” poses a most devastating threat.
- ISBN10 0393087573
- ISBN13 9780393087574
- Publish Date 1 January 1976
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 September 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint W. W. Norton & Company
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 241
- Language English