Мемуары придворного карлика, гностика по убеждению

"Memoirs of a court dwarf, a gnostic by conviction" is the title of a book published in the "fabula rasa" series by the Symposium publishing house.
The pseudonymous author David Madsen is a living English Catholic philosopher, theologian and monk , published the novel in 1995. By genre, this is the diary of the personal secretary of Pope Leo X, the dwarf Giuseppe, representing the Renaissance and its leaders - Raphael, Leonardo, Mirandola through the eyes of a contemporary. "Memoirs ..." were written as if from the inside, by a man of the Renaissance, a comprehensively educated cosmopolitan, revising the concepts of good and evil, vice and virtue, perversion and norms. Before us is a bewitchingly frank, sharp and frightening with its documentary novel about the Renaissance and not only.