evoca sus experiencias de senador romano, entre druidas y como protector de Akasha y Enkil, reyes de los vampiros. Se detiene en su amor por Pandora y en su tarea como mentor de Lestat. Rememora tambien la caida de Roma, su huida a Constantinopla, patria de la insaciable Eudoxia, y el regreso a la Italia renacentista. A traves de Marius, Anne Rice plasma una vida errante, rica en escenarios y seres apasionantes, pero compleja y limitada por su condicion de eterna, al tiempo que describe la convulsa existencia de los vampiros, enriqueciendo sus Cronicas Vampiricas son esta octava entrega. / Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, Marius is kidnapped and forced into that dark realm of blood, where he is made a protector of the Queen and King of the vampiresin whom the core of the supernatural race resides. Through his eyes we see the fall of pagan Rome to the Emperor Constantine, the horrific sack of the Eternal City at the hands of the Visigoths, and the vile aftermath of the Black Death. Ultimately restored by the beauty of the Renaissance, Marius becomes a painter, living dangerously yet happily among mortals, and giving his heart to the great master Botticelli, to the bewitching courtesan Bianca, and to the mysterious young apprentice Armand. But it is in the present day, deep in the jungle, when Marius will meet his fate seeking justice from the oldest vampires in the world...

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