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
... Spanish soldiers. Between these two were the Italians themselves; the popes attempted to palliate both the French and the Emperor, an impossible task. Powerful Italian families threw their lot in with one or the other: Cesare Borgia was ...
... Spanish soldiers. Between these two were the Italians themselves; the popes attempted to palliate both the French and the Emperor, an impossible task. Powerful Italian families threw their lot in with one or the other: Cesare Borgia was ...
Pagina 20
... 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 and which we both ...
... 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 and which we both ...
Pagina 21
... Spanish and Italian blood played me false; eventually I managed to adapt. I never forgot that the world extended beyond palace walls and the borders of a royal park. How could I? I carried the memory of my youth, of the early years with ...
... Spanish and Italian blood played me false; eventually I managed to adapt. I never forgot that the world extended beyond palace walls and the borders of a royal park. How could I? I carried the memory of my youth, of the early years with ...
Pagina 23
... Spanish title which is mine by right—Don Juan de Borja y Llancol. When I was still a child, I thought Cesare was my father, probably because no one said he wasn't, and because I lived in his immediate entourage with two of his other ...
... Spanish title which is mine by right—Don Juan de Borja y Llancol. When I was still a child, I thought Cesare was my father, probably because no one said he wasn't, and because I lived in his immediate entourage with two of his other ...
Pagina 25
... Spanish cardinals looked after us as our guardians. Of our many visits to the Vatican–Alexander couldn't seem to see enough of us when we were in his neighborhood—all I remember are the papal apartments. In a room with brightly painted ...
... Spanish cardinals looked after us as our guardians. Of our many visits to the Vatican–Alexander couldn't seem to see enough of us when we were in his neighborhood—all I remember are the papal apartments. In a room with brightly painted ...
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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