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Gerardo Laveaga Mexico
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Gerardo Laveaga
was born in Mexico City in 1963. He has a degree in law and is a professor of
Criminal Law and Theory of Government at the Autonomous Technological Institute
of Mexico.
In
his historical novel El sueño de Inocencio ("Innocent's
Dream"), Laveaga tells the story of the rise of young Lotario di Segni to
become the most important pope of the Middle Ages,
Innocent III.
When at the end of the 12th century the Catholic
Church is at risk of being absorbed by the Holy Roman Empire, the brilliant
young ecclesiastic lawman Lotario di Segni is elected pope. Seeing himself as
God's representative on earth, he extends the Catholic Church's influence by
drastic means such as burning heretics, introducing compulsory confessions and
ruling that marriages may not be dissolved. Yet time and again, his past
catches up with him – especially his love for Bruna, a woman of the Cathar
faith, his sworn enemies.
This story of the most significant and contradictory
medieval pope is told with page-turning suspense. Set before a colourful
backdrop of historical events which shape the Catholic Church to the present
day, the novel draws the reader into an opulent tale full of love, eroticism,
politics and power.
Laveaga points out that Innocent's biggest error was
to believe that he could dominate peoples' minds and that the world could only
be governed under one criterion: Christianity.
El Universal
Novels:
Valeria
Mexico
City: Diana 1987,
Miguel
Angel Porrúa 2000, 280 p.
El
último desfile de septiembre
Mexico
City: Planeta 1994, 188 p.
Creced
y multiplicaos
Mexico
City: Nueva Imagen 1996, 2000, 103 p.
El
sueño de Inocencio
Mexico
City: Planeta 2006, 405 p.
Brazil: Planeta 2007 ● Portugal: Dom Quixote 2008