A TERRACE IN ROME

A Terrace in Rome describes the tormented life of Geoffroy Meaume, a 17th-century engraver of encrypted shadows and erotic prints. A fter a passionate affair in his youth concludes with his face being burned by acid thrown by his lovers jealous fiancé, Meaume unde rtakes a lifetime of wandering, his psyche forever engraved by the memory of the woman who spurned him. With a face of boiled leathe r and a mind haunted by a nightmare of desire, he devotes himself to the black-and-white world of etchings and mezzotints, forsaking the para...[Leer más]