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 28
... felt that the woman at the window was aware of my every movement, although she did not look at me. The bed in which I lay was her bed; I was suddenly certain of this. I recognized the scent which rose from the pillows as Vannozza's, but ...
... felt that the woman at the window was aware of my every movement, although she did not look at me. The bed in which I lay was her bed; I was suddenly certain of this. I recognized the scent which rose from the pillows as Vannozza's, but ...
Pagina 38
... felt such an incessant, overwhelming need to call back memories of my youth. What possesses me, to return again and again to a past that holds nothing for me but confusion and upheaval? In France I was able to get rid of my constant ...
... felt such an incessant, overwhelming need to call back memories of my youth. What possesses me, to return again and again to a past that holds nothing for me but confusion and upheaval? In France I was able to get rid of my constant ...
Pagina 53
... felt the movement, the unrest that betrays the undercurrents of rumor. He closed his ears to the echo of this intrigue, but it remained audible around him during his stay at the court—an attendant whisper, like the troublesome buzzing ...
... felt the movement, the unrest that betrays the undercurrents of rumor. He closed his ears to the echo of this intrigue, but it remained audible around him during his stay at the court—an attendant whisper, like the troublesome buzzing ...
Pagina 54
... felt polluted, forced away from his concentration on the work left behind in Florence. Enforced idleness, the worst torture. Keep moving physically and think, think . . . without that counterbalance, he would go mad. That part of his ...
... felt polluted, forced away from his concentration on the work left behind in Florence. Enforced idleness, the worst torture. Keep moving physically and think, think . . . without that counterbalance, he would go mad. That part of his ...
Pagina 56
... felt abused, deceived, he gave the money and gifts that were asked of him, begged forgiveness for his violence and crude words and withdrew with his bitterness where no one could follow him—into his workroom or the marble quarry. He had ...
... felt abused, deceived, he gave the money and gifts that were asked of him, begged forgiveness for his violence and crude words and withdrew with his bitterness where no one could follow him—into his workroom or the marble quarry. He had ...
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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