Sonnica - Vicente Blasco Ibanez - 1919.

The fulfillment of a teenage wish and a complement to the novels set in Valencia, SÓNICA LA CORTESANA (1901) recreates the heroic resistance of the city of Sagunto against Hannibal's troops. Inserted in the narrative tradition that takes as scenarios historical episodes from past times and that runs through the entire nineteenth century, from «The last days of Pompeii» to «Quo vadis», passing through «Salambó», Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928) revives in this novel the lavish and heroic world, refined and wild at the same time, of Antiquity.

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was a journalist, politician and best-selling Spanish novelist in various genres whose most widespread and lasting fame in the English-speaking world is from Hollywood films adapted from his works.