Belli, Gioconda  (, 1948-) <br/><br/>
The scroll of seduction  : a novel 
/ Gioconda Belli ; translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman 
 - 1st Harper pbk. 
 - New York, NY  : HarperCollins  , c2006. 
 - x, 325 p.  ; 24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Translation of: Pergamino de la seducción. 
<br/><br/> How crazy was Juana La Loca, the Spanish queen who allegedly would not stop kissing her husband, Philippe the Handsome, even after he died? A Madrid professor enlists the help of a student and a silk dress to find out in the latest from Nicaraguan poet-memoirist-novelist Belli (The Country Under My Skin). While touring the Escorial, 17-year-old Lucia, a Latin American-born orphan attending a Madrid Catholic boarding school, meets Manuel, a 40-something professor who draws Lucia into his obsession with 16th-century Juana. Soon, Manuel dresses Lucia like Juana, and, as he seduces (and eventually impregnates) her, she channels Juana's spirit, allowing Belli to create in sensuous detail a turbulent, emotion-driven version of events that is at odds with historians' accounts of Juana's schizophrenia. Juana, as Belli depicts her, was a passionate woman who fell victim to power-hungry relatives, and whose eccentric behavior may have been symptoms of bipolar disorder. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780060833138 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006286710 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Juana , la Loca, Queen of Castile  (, 1479-1555) ----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Art historians----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ7519.2.B44  / P4513 2006