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 ix
... fighting for the French and was captured by the Imperial forces at the Battle of Pavia; he was rescued from the Imperials by a friendly prelate who remembered Cesare Borgia and taken to Rome, where he has been awarded the office of ...
... fighting for the French and was captured by the Imperial forces at the Battle of Pavia; he was rescued from the Imperials by a friendly prelate who remembered Cesare Borgia and taken to Rome, where he has been awarded the office of ...
Pagina x
... fighting for his life against a legion of enemies. . . . So the drama of Giovanni's search for his identity is played out against the violent background of the Italian Wars: Italy and indeed Western Europe are in the throes of the birth ...
... fighting for his life against a legion of enemies. . . . So the drama of Giovanni's search for his identity is played out against the violent background of the Italian Wars: Italy and indeed Western Europe are in the throes of the birth ...
Pagina xii
... fighting for the King of Navarre.] War begins again in Italy when Pope Julius II makes an alliance with France, Spain and the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I against Venice. The French conquer Venice. Pope Julius II makes peace with ...
... fighting for the King of Navarre.] War begins again in Italy when Pope Julius II makes an alliance with France, Spain and the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I against Venice. The French conquer Venice. Pope Julius II makes peace with ...
Pagina xiii
... fighting for the French there, is also captured by the Imperials, but is rescued by Cardinal Aleandro who takes him to Rome where he becomes a speechwriter in the Vatican.] Death of the Marquis of Pescara. Francis I's mother, Louise of ...
... fighting for the French there, is also captured by the Imperials, but is rescued by Cardinal Aleandro who takes him to Rome where he becomes a speechwriter in the Vatican.] Death of the Marquis of Pescara. Francis I's mother, Louise of ...
Pagina 31
... fighting was already at fever pitch in the vanguard. It didn't last long. Our column dashed back at full speed by another route, this time over the Tiber Bridge into the Borgo, where the Vatican buildings and the basilica rose darkly ...
... fighting was already at fever pitch in the vanguard. It didn't last long. Our column dashed back at full speed by another route, this time over the Tiber Bridge into the Borgo, where the Vatican buildings and the basilica rose darkly ...
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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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