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 x
... 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 half-sister. Cesare, who had died in 1507, had then been ...
... 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 half-sister. Cesare, who had died in 1507, had then been ...
Pagina xii
... King of Navarre. Meets Niccolò Machiavelli, who uses him as the model for the ideal ruler in The Prince.] [1507: Cesare dies in battle fighting for the King of Navarre.] War begins again in Italy when Pope Julius II makes an alliance ...
... King of Navarre. Meets Niccolò Machiavelli, who uses him as the model for the ideal ruler in The Prince.] [1507: Cesare dies in battle fighting for the King of Navarre.] War begins again in Italy when Pope Julius II makes an alliance ...
Pagina xiii
... King of Spain, is elected Emperor, defeating Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England for this throne. Strong enmity exists between Charles and Francis. [Death of Lucrezia Borgia.] Hostilities between Francis I and Charles V break ...
... King of Spain, is elected Emperor, defeating Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England for this throne. Strong enmity exists between Charles and Francis. [Death of Lucrezia Borgia.] Hostilities between Francis I and Charles V break ...
Pagina 19
... King was well-disposed toward me: after all, I was considered to be a protege of the House of Este of Ferrara, and in those days France had no better friend and ally in Italy than Alfonso d'Este, Lucrezia's husband. Equally important to ...
... King was well-disposed toward me: after all, I was considered to be a protege of the House of Este of Ferrara, and in those days France had no better friend and ally in Italy than Alfonso d'Este, Lucrezia's husband. Equally important to ...
Pagina 20
... kings and emperors; but on the other hand, a secret gnawing doubt, a sense of shame which neither she nor I could put into words and which we both tried to hide behind a great show of arrogant self-confidence. This was easier for me ...
... kings and emperors; but on the other hand, a secret gnawing doubt, a sense of shame which neither she nor I could put into words and which we both tried to hide behind a great show of arrogant self-confidence. This was easier for me ...
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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