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 ix
... French and the Emperor, an impossible task. Powerful Italian families threw their lot in with one or the other: Cesare Borgia was a partisan of the French and was made a duke by Francis I; the Colonna family fought for the Emperor ...
... French and the Emperor, an impossible task. Powerful Italian families threw their lot in with one or the other: Cesare Borgia was a partisan of the French and was made a duke by Francis I; the Colonna family fought for the Emperor ...
Pagina x
... French army, he had been living in the court of the French King Francis I where he had met Luisa, Cesare's daughter by his marriage to the French noblewoman Charlotte d'Albret: when he first came to France, Giovanni took Luisa to be his ...
... French army, he had been living in the court of the French King Francis I where he had met Luisa, Cesare's daughter by his marriage to the French noblewoman Charlotte d'Albret: when he first came to France, Giovanni took Luisa to be his ...
Pagina xi
... French successfully occupy Naples, but disagreements flare between French and Spaniards. [Cesare Borgia is made Duke of the Romagna by his father Alexander VI. Lucrezia marries for the third time to Alfonso d'Este.] 1502: 1504–1505 ...
... French successfully occupy Naples, but disagreements flare between French and Spaniards. [Cesare Borgia is made Duke of the Romagna by his father Alexander VI. Lucrezia marries for the third time to Alfonso d'Este.] 1502: 1504–1505 ...
Pagina xii
... French conquer Venice. Pope Julius II makes peace with Venice and begins martial action to expel the French from Italy. The Swiss enter the conflict on the side of Spain and the Emperor. They storm Milan, defeat the French and return ...
... French conquer Venice. Pope Julius II makes peace with Venice and begins martial action to expel the French from Italy. The Swiss enter the conflict on the side of Spain and the Emperor. They storm Milan, defeat the French and return ...
Pagina xiii
... French King is taken prisoner there and sent to Madrid. [Giovanni Borgia, who has been fighting for the French there, is also captured by the Imperials, but is rescued by Cardinal Aleandro who takes him to Rome where he becomes a ...
... French King is taken prisoner there and sent to Madrid. [Giovanni Borgia, who has been fighting for the French there, is also captured by the Imperials, but is rescued by Cardinal Aleandro who takes him to Rome where he becomes a ...
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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