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 22
... eyes, who could use a lead marker to create landscapes and figures from mildewed blotches on a damp wall; Micheletto, Cesare's advisor and right hand; Agapito, his secretary—and finally, the children, my playmates: Camilla, Carlotta and ...
... eyes, who could use a lead marker to create landscapes and figures from mildewed blotches on a damp wall; Micheletto, Cesare's advisor and right hand; Agapito, his secretary—and finally, the children, my playmates: Camilla, Carlotta and ...
Pagina 23
... eyes and ears here and anyway, only fools, prisoners or madmen talk to themselves out loud. My writing doesn't attract any attention; it looks to be part of my work. Nearly every day I stand at a desk in the papal library, covering ...
... eyes and ears here and anyway, only fools, prisoners or madmen talk to themselves out loud. My writing doesn't attract any attention; it looks to be part of my work. Nearly every day I stand at a desk in the papal library, covering ...
Pagina 26
... eyes that he was always taken for a 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 ...
... eyes that he was always taken for a 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 ...
Pagina 27
... eyes and mouth: the sparks in her black pupils, alternately glowing and dying, the shadows on either side of her broad fleshy upper lip with its faint moustache, which gave her face a look of bitter pride. Her harsh, probing stare ...
... eyes and mouth: the sparks in her black pupils, alternately glowing and dying, the shadows on either side of her broad fleshy upper lip with its faint moustache, which gave her face a look of bitter pride. Her harsh, probing stare ...
Pagina 29
... eyes upon us, told her rosary quickly and loudly; Sancia started quarrels or sat yawning. Gioffredo bit his nails in silence. Rodrigo, Camilla, Carlotta and I amused ourselves as well as we could, throwing a ball or playing with ...
... eyes upon us, told her rosary quickly and loudly; Sancia started quarrels or sat yawning. Gioffredo bit his nails in silence. Rodrigo, Camilla, Carlotta and I amused ourselves as well as we could, throwing a ball or playing with ...
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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