Kristin Lavransdatter
This fictional novel, consisting of three long volumes, is the masterpiece of the well-known Norwegian author, with which she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. She takes great care in every detail...
UNDSET, Sigrid
Gunnar's Daughter
In 1909, years before the publication of her great novels of medieval atmosphere (Cristina, daughter of Lavrans and Olav Audunssön) and her conversion to Catholicism, Sigrid Undset (Nobel Prize for...
Catherine of Siena
Biography of Saint Catherine of Siena, a mystic saint of the Middle Ages, who asked the Pope to return from Avignon to Rome, and sacrificed her entire life for the Church.
Italy was by then split...