The Scarlet City: A Novel of 16th-century ItalyAcademy Chicago Publishers, 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 sixteenthcentury Rome. |
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Pagina 337
... Farnese and the Colonna ... those of them who were spared ... are still with the Emperor's armies . They're proceeding to Naples , to Lombardy , through the Romagna - without me . But I'm still alive . I have presumably on Cardinal ...
... Farnese and the Colonna ... those of them who were spared ... are still with the Emperor's armies . They're proceeding to Naples , to Lombardy , through the Romagna - without me . But I'm still alive . I have presumably on Cardinal ...
Pagina 354
... Farnese for that Lucrezia , the Duchess of Ferrara . My lawyers sorted that out . That has silenced him for good , I think . But my troubles are only beginning . Farnese will never forgive me for exposing his bungling before the Rota ...
... Farnese for that Lucrezia , the Duchess of Ferrara . My lawyers sorted that out . That has silenced him for good , I think . But my troubles are only beginning . Farnese will never forgive me for exposing his bungling before the Rota ...
Pagina 355
... Farnese ? They're telling people that we in the Campagnia and the Capuchins are infected with the German heresy ... My God , there isn't a nobler , more pious man than Fra Bernardo , the head of the Order . It's a comfort to the soul to ...
... Farnese ? They're telling people that we in the Campagnia and the Capuchins are infected with the German heresy ... My God , there isn't a nobler , more pious man than Fra Bernardo , the head of the Order . It's a comfort to the soul to ...
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 9 |
The Italian Wars | 11 |
Giovanni Borgia | 17 |
Copyright | |
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