La hija de Goya

Rosario Weiss grew up in the shadow of a genius. Goddaughter—and likely daughter—of Francisco de Goya, she shared with him and her mother, Leocadia, the Aragonese artist's final years of silence and exile. In a Spain dominated by the terror of Ferdinand VII, amidst liberal conspiracies, secret societies, and forced exiles, Rosario witnessed a turbulent time that paved the way for modernity, freedom, and, in a way, democracy. Through her eyes, the reader gains access to a clandestine world where writers like José de Espronceda and Leandro Fernández de Moratín crossed paths, and where art, politics, and literature shaped the new sensibility of Romanticism. But this is not just a historical novel or a thriller: it is also the story of a vocation, of a love between father and daughter, and of an impossible youthful romance. Rosario Weiss struggles to find her place in a world that denies women the right to create. A painter against her time and against oblivion, her life also reveals an intimate and unknown Goya.