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 xi
... 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: 1508: 1509: 1510: 1512: 1513: 1515: Spain and —xi— Chronology: The Italian Wars.
... 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: 1508: 1509: 1510: 1512: 1513: 1515: Spain and —xi— Chronology: The Italian Wars.
Pagina xiv
... Spaniards under Charles de Bourbon, an enemy of Francis I, against him. In May of 1527 Rome is sacked for a full week by this army, and the Pope is trapped in the Castel Sant'Angelo. Francis captures Genoa and is advancing to Rome to ...
... Spaniards under Charles de Bourbon, an enemy of Francis I, against him. In May of 1527 Rome is sacked for a full week by this army, and the Pope is trapped in the Castel Sant'Angelo. Francis captures Genoa and is advancing to Rome to ...
Pagina 26
... Spaniard. We had learned to respect him; he seemed to us to be a part of Cesare himself, as inseparable from him as his shadow, but a shadow of flesh and blood, a replica, a creature emanating from Cesare, obeying his unspoken will. The ...
... Spaniard. We had learned to respect him; he seemed to us to be a part of Cesare himself, as inseparable from him as his shadow, but a shadow of flesh and blood, a replica, a creature emanating from Cesare, obeying his unspoken will. The ...
Pagina 38
... Spaniards, a style which suited us better than French elegance or the Italian grand manner. Speaking of this, I remember something that happened when I was fighting in the Pyrenees for King Francis. That was in '21. The Spaniards were ...
... Spaniards, a style which suited us better than French elegance or the Italian grand manner. Speaking of this, I remember something that happened when I was fighting in the Pyrenees for King Francis. That was in '21. The Spaniards were ...
Pagina 39
... Spaniard among the bushes by the side of the road. * I spoke to him in his own tongue—asked him his name, where he came from. He listened attentively, measured me from head to toe with a sharp look. "You're a Spanish nobleman, as I am ...
... Spaniard among the bushes by the side of the road. * I spoke to him in his own tongue—asked him his name, where he came from. He listened attentively, measured me from head to toe with a sharp look. "You're a Spanish nobleman, as I am ...
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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