In 1590, Naples was shaken by a brutal murder. The killer is the great and mad composer Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa. The victims are his beautiful wife Maria and her aristocratic lover. Gesualdo preferred boys and did not love his wife, but jealousy, envy of his rival and furious anger prevailed over common sense. With the chilling composure of a hunter, he tracked down the wary lovers and staged a farewell performance for them, whose cruelty shocked even his contemporaries who were accustomed to everything. This novel is thoroughly imbued with open eroticism, ruthless violence and the mature beauty of medieval Naples. It will make you laugh and cry at the amazing fate of the most beautiful woman in Italy in the 16th century.