Tracy Chevalier, author of "The Girl with a Pearl Earring", presents her new novel, "The Glass Master", in dialogue with the writer and journalist Matteo Strukul.
We are in 1486. ​​Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter of a family of Murano glass blowers. As a woman, Orsola is not destined to work glass, but she has the hands to do it, the heart and a secret talent.
To write the novel, the author spent a lot of time in the lagoon, where she carried out in-depth historical research and closely observed the craft of glass art, the true protagonist of the book, around which ancient and modern stories revolve...
Participants will have the opportunity to attend the first presentation of the novel in Italy.