Fabrizio's Return
A brilliant novel packed with delights: grand romance, alchemical potions, violins to make you weep, commedia dell’arte theatre, reappearing comets, rambling skeletons and cracks in time.
It is 1682 in Cremona, Italy. With his manservant, an insolent dwarf named Omero, Fabrizio Cambiati, a priest, climbs the town clocktower to await the return of a comet that is said to reappear in the skies every 76 years. He has a new invention called a telescope with which to scour the night. As they await the comet, he scopes the town below and sees the commedia dell’arte players setting up in the town square and a Jesuit arriving in a carriage. We later learn that the Jesuit is Michele Archenti, a Devil’s Advocate…
$19.95
November 28, 2006
Mark Frutkin is the author of 3 books of poetry and 6 of fiction, including Atmosphere Apollinaire, which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Trillium and the Ottawa Book Award. He lives in Ottawa.
