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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... woman, but over the years he has come to doubt this. He is in a kind of maze, and he recalls his life as a maze. Before he joined the French army, he had been living in the court of the French King Francis I where he had met Luisa ...
... woman, but over the years he has come to doubt this. He is in a kind of maze, and he recalls his life as a maze. Before he joined the French army, he had been living in the court of the French King Francis I where he had met Luisa ...
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... women 2 Pedro Luis Isabella Girolama Giovanni Rodrigo (1462?-88) (1467?-1541) (1469?-83) (1497-1548?) (born 1503) First Duke of Gandia, m. in. INFANS ROMANUS 1485 Pietro Matuzzi Gianandrea Cesarini Duke of Camerino (betrothed to and ...
... women 2 Pedro Luis Isabella Girolama Giovanni Rodrigo (1462?-88) (1467?-1541) (1469?-83) (1497-1548?) (born 1503) First Duke of Gandia, m. in. INFANS ROMANUS 1485 Pietro Matuzzi Gianandrea Cesarini Duke of Camerino (betrothed to and ...
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... woman whom I thought was my half-sister. Luisa was four or five years younger than I; we shared the same mixed feelings toward our lineage. On the one hand, pride, inborn Spanish pride in the fact that we both belonged to a race that ...
... woman whom I thought was my half-sister. Luisa was four or five years younger than I; we shared the same mixed feelings toward our lineage. On the one hand, pride, inborn Spanish pride in the fact that we both belonged to a race that ...
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... women of Cesare's retinue: his mother, Madonna Vannozza, stout, faded, with a shadowed upper lip, but regal in bearing and gesture; the shy, quick-tempered Gioffredo, his youngest brother, who was comfortable only with children and ...
... women of Cesare's retinue: his mother, Madonna Vannozza, stout, faded, with a shadowed upper lip, but regal in bearing and gesture; the shy, quick-tempered Gioffredo, his youngest brother, who was comfortable only with children and ...
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... women appointed to look after us. I spent the first years of my life in palanquins and coaches, in tents, in halls of newly captured or hastily abandoned castles in the Romagna. I no longer remember names. Later I heard about Imola and ...
... women appointed to look after us. I spent the first years of my life in palanquins and coaches, in tents, in halls of newly captured or hastily abandoned castles in the Romagna. I no longer remember names. Later I heard about Imola and ...
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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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