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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... hand. The protagonist of this labyrinthine story, Giovanni Borgia, a mysterious figure known in history as the infans Romanus, or child of Rome, was born in 1497. We meet him first in Rome in 1525; he had been fighting for the French ...
... hand. The protagonist of this labyrinthine story, Giovanni Borgia, a mysterious figure known in history as the infans Romanus, or child of Rome, was born in 1497. We meet him first in Rome in 1525; he had been fighting for the French ...
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... hand, pride, inborn Spanish pride in the fact that we both belonged to a race that had dared to challenge kings and emperors; but on the other hand, a secret gnawing doubt, a sense of shame which neither she nor I could put into words ...
... hand, pride, inborn Spanish pride in the fact that we both belonged to a race that had dared to challenge kings and emperors; but on the other hand, a secret gnawing doubt, a sense of shame which neither she nor I could put into words ...
Pagina 22
... hand; Agapito, his secretary—and finally, the children, my playmates: Camilla, Carlotta and of course Rodrigo, the confidant and bosom friend of my youth. I was five or six years old then. I knew that we were in danger, but the how and ...
... hand; Agapito, his secretary—and finally, the children, my playmates: Camilla, Carlotta and of course Rodrigo, the confidant and bosom friend of my youth. I was five or six years old then. I knew that we were in danger, but the how and ...
Pagina 24
... hand lay on my knee. In a gloomy hall filled with armed men he held me under the armpits and lifted me up high. "Behold the new Lord of Camerino, the first Duke, by the grace of Pope Alexander!" • He pushed a heavy ring, too wide for it ...
... hand lay on my knee. In a gloomy hall filled with armed men he held me under the armpits and lifted me up high. "Behold the new Lord of Camerino, the first Duke, by the grace of Pope Alexander!" • He pushed a heavy ring, too wide for it ...
Pagina 25
... hand, which was broad, soft and always very warm. Then he bent forward and squeezed us against him, breathing heavily with emotion; his velvet cape smelled of stale incense and musk. "Are you here again, my boys, my fine, handsome boys ...
... hand, which was broad, soft and always very warm. Then he bent forward and squeezed us against him, breathing heavily with emotion; his velvet cape smelled of stale incense and musk. "Are you here again, my boys, my fine, handsome boys ...
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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