Villa le Barone’s guests have many talents: designers, photographers, painters, writers! The recent book by Thierry Chambolle “The Master of Unicorn” is an example.
It is a historical novel that tells of the journey of the Indian rhinoceros given in 1515 by the Sultan of Cambaye to Afonso de Albuquerque, who will give it to his king, Manuel I, who himself will give it to Pope Leon X. From a drawing, Albrecht Dürer will make a still famous engraving of this rhinoceros, animal never seen before in Europe.
Unfortunately, the book has not been translated yet, but it might interest the French speaking readers of this article!