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 67
... Ischia ; that was a breathing - space for her after an early youth full of disturbance and danger . The Colonna had been driven from their lands by the Borgia Pope Alexander , who had taken Nepi from them , their estate in the Romagna ...
... Ischia ; that was a breathing - space for her after an early youth full of disturbance and danger . The Colonna had been driven from their lands by the Borgia Pope Alexander , who had taken Nepi from them , their estate in the Romagna ...
Pagina 80
... Ferrante to Marino , to Ischia . I would even put up with his summoning that Other if he longs for her . . . . It's not peace I have to thank for his presence , but war . An insult of fate , a mockery of -80- The Scarlet City.
... Ferrante to Marino , to Ischia . I would even put up with his summoning that Other if he longs for her . . . . It's not peace I have to thank for his presence , but war . An insult of fate , a mockery of -80- The Scarlet City.
Pagina 360
... Ischia after Ferrante's death was a bundle of papers covered with lies . It took all my courage to read carefully through the sonnets and canzoni again one by one . I was horrified by the transparent self- deceit I found there . I read ...
... Ischia after Ferrante's death was a bundle of papers covered with lies . It took all my courage to read carefully through the sonnets and canzoni again one by one . I was horrified by the transparent self- deceit I found there . I read ...
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 9 |
The Italian Wars | 11 |
Giovanni Borgia | 17 |
Copyright | |
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