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 65
... Ferrante wouldn't accept my suggestions, some plan that the enemies could come to agreement on . . . that was my goal. Harmony, for the sake of Christ. I didn't suspect that His Holiness and Giberti were only promoting their own ...
... Ferrante wouldn't accept my suggestions, some plan that the enemies could come to agreement on . . . that was my goal. Harmony, for the sake of Christ. I didn't suspect that His Holiness and Giberti were only promoting their own ...
Pagina 66
... Ferrante, to bring him closer to me—wouldn't I have known it? I've always hated self-deception; I've known for a long time that I can never conquer Ferrante. True, there was a time when I would have given everything I had to possess him ...
... Ferrante, to bring him closer to me—wouldn't I have known it? I've always hated self-deception; I've known for a long time that I can never conquer Ferrante. True, there was a time when I would have given everything I had to possess him ...
Pagina 67
... Ferrante Francesco d'Avalos, Marquis of Pescara. That was an alliance with favorable terms for both parties. She spent the years between the betrothal and the actual marriage at the castle of Ferrante's relatives in Ischia; that was a ...
... Ferrante Francesco d'Avalos, Marquis of Pescara. That was an alliance with favorable terms for both parties. She spent the years between the betrothal and the actual marriage at the castle of Ferrante's relatives in Ischia; that was a ...
Pagina 68
... Ferrante's embraces. In her arms he remained a stranger, closed-off, inaccessible. It was a brief pleasure that they shared; a tempestuous sensual appetite which flared up and vanished without a trace. Vittoria knew that she really had ...
... Ferrante's embraces. In her arms he remained a stranger, closed-off, inaccessible. It was a brief pleasure that they shared; a tempestuous sensual appetite which flared up and vanished without a trace. Vittoria knew that she really had ...
Pagina 69
... Ferrante's heir and successor. When I write to Ferrante, when I read his replies, I have the feeling that we're united. But to see him again, to speak with him, to touch his hands—I don't dare to think about what that means to me. I don ...
... Ferrante's heir and successor. When I write to Ferrante, when I read his replies, I have the feeling that we're united. But to see him again, to speak with him, to touch his hands—I don't dare to think about what that means to me. I don ...
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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