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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... father the Pope. Arranges murder of Lucrezia's second husband Alfonso.] The French successfully occupy Naples, but disagreements flare between French and Spaniards. [Cesare Borgia is made Duke of the Romagna by his father Alexander VI ...
... father the Pope. Arranges murder of Lucrezia's second husband Alfonso.] The French successfully occupy Naples, but disagreements flare between French and Spaniards. [Cesare Borgia is made Duke of the Romagna by his father Alexander VI ...
Pagina 19
... Equally important to me was the good will of another blood relative: Luisa—or Louise as she was called there—Cesare's daughter by his French marriage. Since I still believed then that Cesare was my father too, I set great value on —19–
... Equally important to me was the good will of another blood relative: Luisa—or Louise as she was called there—Cesare's daughter by his French marriage. Since I still believed then that Cesare was my father too, I set great value on —19–
Pagina 20
A Novel of 16th Century Italy Hella S. Haasse. Cesare was my father too, I set great value on the influence of this woman whom I thought was my half-sister. Luisa was four or five years younger than I; we shared the same mixed feelings ...
A Novel of 16th Century Italy Hella S. Haasse. Cesare was my father too, I set great value on the influence of this woman whom I thought was my half-sister. Luisa was four or five years younger than I; we shared the same mixed feelings ...
Pagina 21
... father of Cesare and Lucrezia. As the bastard of the illegitimate son of a former vicar of Christ on earth, I could in a certain sense consider myself to be a member of a dynasty. In my first years at the French court, I lived in the ...
... father of Cesare and Lucrezia. As the bastard of the illegitimate son of a former vicar of Christ on earth, I could in a certain sense consider myself to be a member of a dynasty. In my first years at the French court, I lived in the ...
Pagina 23
... father and mother were. There must be records of my birth in Ferrara, but I haven't seen them. I'm roughly twenty-eight years old, my name is Giovanni Borgia, or— to employ the Spanish title which is mine by right—Don Juan de Borja y ...
... father and mother were. There must be records of my birth in Ferrara, but I haven't seen them. I'm roughly twenty-eight years old, my name is Giovanni Borgia, or— to employ the Spanish title which is mine by right—Don Juan de Borja y ...
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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