BEATRICE AND BENEDICK
Book ID/图书代码： 12691014B67032
English Summary/英文概要： Hidden in the language of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedy Much Ado About Nothing, are several clues to an intriguing tale. It seems that the witty lovers Beatrice and Benedick, had a previous youhful love affair which ended bitterly. But how did they meet, why did they part, and what brought them together again?Messina, Sicily, 1588. Beatrice of Mantua is brought to live at the court of her uncle Leonato, to be companion and goveness to his daughter, Hero. That fateful summer, Spanish lordling Don Pedro visits for a month long sojourn on the island with his regiment. In his company is the young soldier Benedick of Padua.
Benedick and Beatrice begin to wage their merry war of wit, which masks the reality that they dance a more serious measure, and the two are soon deeply in love. But the pair are cruelly parted by natural disaster and man-made misunderstanding.
Oceans apart, divided by war and slander, Beatrice and Benedick begin their ten-year odyssey back to Messina and each other. In a journey that takes us from the sunlit southern courts of Sicily to the crippled Armada fleet and from a bitter curse uttered as a woman dies at the stake to the glorious Renaissance cities of the north, Marina Fiorato tells a story of intrigue, treachery and betrayal that will shed a new light on Shakespeare’s most appealing lovers.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 隐藏在莎士比亚最为得意的喜剧《无事生非》字里行间中，剧中数条线索巧妙穿插, 最吸引人的是贝特丽丝和班尼迪克之前的恋情。 看起来这对充满睿智的恋人似乎都有着那么一段苦涩的青葱爱情。 但他们是如何相遇的，他们有为何分开，又是什么令这对恋人再度重聚的呢？
1588年，意大利著名的港口城市墨西拿，西西里岛，来自意大利北部城市曼图亚的贝特丽丝来到在法院供职的叔叔奥纳托这里，陪伴叔叔的女儿希罗。这个命运注定的夏季，西班牙贵族公子唐•佩德罗和他的随从在岛上逗留了一月有余。随行的还有一位来自帕多瓦的年轻士兵班尼迪克。
班尼迪克和贝特丽丝就此开始了他们充满欢笑的斗智角力之中，在那看似严谨的舞步下，是各自隐藏的真实，二人很快坠入了情网。但这对情侣却因天灾和人为的误解，而被残忍地分开了。远隔重洋，除了战争和诽谤，班尼迪克和贝特丽丝各自开始了他们长达十年的墨西拿归乡之旅。
在这段时光之旅中，作者引领读者从阳光明媚的西西里岛到残破的西班牙无敌舰队，从远古的迷信，到文艺复兴时期北部城市的辉煌，玛丽娜•菲欧拉托向我们诉说了一个关于阴谋，变节和背叛下所映射出莎翁最为动人的一对爱侣故事。(Sandy)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Marina Fiorato半個威尼斯人，畢業于牛津大學與威尼斯大學歷史系，專長是研究莎士比亞戲劇中的歷史。大學畢業後，她研讀美術，曾經當過繪者、演員與影評家。曾替知名搖滾團體包括U2與滾石設計巡迴演唱設計視覺效果。目前與老公、孩子住在英國。Marina 2008年出版的第一本作品THE GLASSBLOWER OF MURANO（簡繁體版權熱烈洽詢中）立刻讓她成為暢銷作家。至今已售超過20萬本。美國近期由St. Martin’s出版社出版，除英美之外，翻譯版權曾受包括韓國在內的15國。曾被英國最大的連鎖書店Waterstones選為夏季推薦，The Bookseller1月份雜誌封面，英國最知名的設計與生活雜誌ELLE DECORATION英國版6月號跨頁介紹。作者網頁：http://www.marinafiorato.com/ Marina Fiorato is half-Venetian. She was born in Manchester and raised in the Yorkshire Dales. She is a history graduate of Oxford University and the University of Venice, where she specialized in the study of Shakespeare’s plays as an historical source. After university she studied art and since worked as an illustrator, actress and film reviewer. Marina was married on the Grand Canal and lives in north London with her husband, son and daughter.
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