Three characters in search of love and immortality

What is common between them? At first glance, nothing. For somewhere, the medieval princess is being taken somewhere, she finds herself in a completely different world, in Italy the Renaissance and there meets ... In the middle of the XVIII century, the clever-VDOVA skillfully and tastefully conducts affairs of a publishing house in a French provincial town. Everything with her walks according to a well-thought-out plan and suddenly ... The Philologist, who was born in London at the end of the 19th century, looks from the windows of his Roman apartment at the Antininsky hill and dreams of something. Then, with a risk to life, he goes down the stairs, goes out into the street and here ... Three characters, three stories, three eras, different countries, three styles of life, thoughts, feelings, three modes of the narrative, characteristic of these countries and those times. So what is in common between them? Only one thing. In the confusion of circumstances and events, all three are looking for love and immortality. Olga Medvedkova - prose writer, historian of art and architecture, senior researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research on France