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 23
... Holiness Clement VII. Papal scribe: a curious occupation for one who was brought up as a nobleman, who has fought for France in Navarre and before Pavia. They probably think here that I aspire to the purple—or at least to a red hat ...
... Holiness Clement VII. Papal scribe: a curious occupation for one who was brought up as a nobleman, who has fought for France in Navarre and before Pavia. They probably think here that I aspire to the purple—or at least to a red hat ...
Pagina 34
... Holiness. Yesterday the most powerful man in the court, Monsignore Schomberg, the Archbishop of Capua, visited the Chancellery with his retinue. On these occasions anyone who has the opportunity comes forward and salutes. My friend in ...
... Holiness. Yesterday the most powerful man in the court, Monsignore Schomberg, the Archbishop of Capua, visited the Chancellery with his retinue. On these occasions anyone who has the opportunity comes forward and salutes. My friend in ...
Pagina 35
... Holiness a lesson. It may be true that the Emperor received the news of the victory at Pavia with humility and prayers of thanksgiving. But his thoughts, his deepest desires, are known to no living soul. All princes are –35– Giovanni ...
... Holiness a lesson. It may be true that the Emperor received the news of the victory at Pavia with humility and prayers of thanksgiving. But his thoughts, his deepest desires, are known to no living soul. All princes are –35– Giovanni ...
Pagina 36
... Holiness, they say, must now rely for the first time upon the authority conferred through papal dignity. On the subject of the spiritual prestige which His Holiness should possess as God's representative, I prefer to be silent. I'm not ...
... Holiness, they say, must now rely for the first time upon the authority conferred through papal dignity. On the subject of the spiritual prestige which His Holiness should possess as God's representative, I prefer to be silent. I'm not ...
Pagina 37
... Holiness's secretary to frame a speech which will be read by the podesta in the square of some hamlet or other: "Good people, the taxes have been raised again, the cost of bread has gone up once more . . ." Because of these and similar ...
... Holiness's secretary to frame a speech which will be read by the podesta in the square of some hamlet or other: "Good people, the taxes have been raised again, the cost of bread has gone up once more . . ." Because of these and similar ...
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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