As Caravaggio and the loutish Spanish poet Quevedo aim to settle scores over the course of one brutal tennis match, the old European order edges closer to eruption.
Across the ocean in Mexico, the Aztec Empire is in the fatal grip of Hernán Cortés and his Mayan lover.
While they scheme and conquer, their domestic comedy will change the course of history, throwing the world – and Rome’s tennis match – into a mind-bending reverie of executions, papal dramas and artistic revolution.



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