The Scarlet City: A Novel of 16th Century ItalyChicago Review Press, 1 aug 2005 - 368 pagina's Although he bears one of the most notorious names in all of Italy, Giovanni Borgia doesn't know his parentage. Hella Haasse uses the Italian Wars as a backdrop for Giovanni's agonizing quest for his identity. Set against the backdrop of the Italian wars, this novel seeks to unravel the puzzle of Giovanni Borgia's true identity. Machiavelli, Vittoria Colonna, Michelangelo, the Borgias and the Medici are some of the characters who inhabit the secretive and dangerous world of sixteenth century Rome. |
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Pagina 15
... Camerino (betrothed to and Nepi Maria Enriquez) (possible offspring of Lucrezia or Cesare?) Vannozza dei Catanei (1425-1518) Cesare (1475-1507) Bishop of Pamplona Cardinal, 1493 Duke of Valentinois, 1498 Duke of Romagna, 1500 in ...
... Camerino (betrothed to and Nepi Maria Enriquez) (possible offspring of Lucrezia or Cesare?) Vannozza dei Catanei (1425-1518) Cesare (1475-1507) Bishop of Pamplona Cardinal, 1493 Duke of Valentinois, 1498 Duke of Romagna, 1500 in ...
Pagina 20
... negative connotations of the Borgia name. In addition, I had been presented at the French court by Alfonso d'Este himself, and further, I wasn't officially called Borgia, but Duke of Nepi and Camerino. An imposing –20– The Scarlet City.
... negative connotations of the Borgia name. In addition, I had been presented at the French court by Alfonso d'Este himself, and further, I wasn't officially called Borgia, but Duke of Nepi and Camerino. An imposing –20– The Scarlet City.
Pagina 21
... Camerino. An imposing title, but a hollow one, nothing more than a string of names, because the possessions and the rights that went with them had been taken from me when Julius the Borgia-hater became pope; he returned the territories ...
... Camerino. An imposing title, but a hollow one, nothing more than a string of names, because the possessions and the rights that went with them had been taken from me when Julius the Borgia-hater became pope; he returned the territories ...
Pagina 22
... Camerino . . . a landscape filled with heaps of rubble, scorched black and still smoking, seen from the window of a palanquin . . . hollow-eyed heads on pikes, grinning above a city gate . . . . Faces of the men and women of Cesare's ...
... Camerino . . . a landscape filled with heaps of rubble, scorched black and still smoking, seen from the window of a palanquin . . . hollow-eyed heads on pikes, grinning above a city gate . . . . Faces of the men and women of Cesare's ...
Pagina 24
... Camerino only because when Cesare took possession of it, I played a role in the solemn ceremony that was performed there. The previous owners of the castle and estates, the Lords Varano, had been murdered or driven away by Cesare; Pope ...
... Camerino only because when Cesare took possession of it, I played a role in the solemn ceremony that was performed there. The previous owners of the castle and estates, the Lords Varano, had been murdered or driven away by Cesare; Pope ...
Inhoudsopgave
XI Tullia dAragona | 217 |
XII Vittoria Colonna | 233 |
XIII Giovanni Borgia | 251 |
XIV Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini | 269 |
XV Tullia dAragona | 279 |
XVI Giovanni Borgia | 295 |
XVII Francesco Guicciardini and Niccolò Machiavelli | 311 |
XVIII Michelangelo Buonarroti | 325 |
VII Vittoria Colonna | 131 |
VIII Francesco Guicciardini to Niccolò Machiavelli | 143 |
IX Giovanni Borgia | 151 |
X Pietro Aretino and Giovanni Borgia | 203 |
XIX Giovanni Borgia | 335 |
XX Vittoria Colonna | 351 |
XXI Giovanni Borgia | 365 |
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