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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... Naples , but is forced to retreat by a coalition consisting of Spain , the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian , Pope Alexander VI and the city - states of Venice and Milan . [ 1497 : Birth of Giovanni Borgia . Lucrezia's marriage is annulled ...
... Naples , but is forced to retreat by a coalition consisting of Spain , the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian , Pope Alexander VI and the city - states of Venice and Milan . [ 1497 : Birth of Giovanni Borgia . Lucrezia's marriage is annulled ...
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... Naples - she passed me , riding next to Pescara in a royal procession . That was more than three years after I had left Bari and I was no longer on an equal footing with the high lords of Naples and its environs . I stood among the ...
... Naples - she passed me , riding next to Pescara in a royal procession . That was more than three years after I had left Bari and I was no longer on an equal footing with the high lords of Naples and its environs . I stood among the ...
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... Naples , accidentally got into a robbers ' den , was pursued by them as a traitor when I decided to get out of it . After that I served for a few months in the retinue of a nobleman at an estate not far from Benevento . There I heard ...
... Naples , accidentally got into a robbers ' den , was pursued by them as a traitor when I decided to get out of it . After that I served for a few months in the retinue of a nobleman at an estate not far from Benevento . There I heard ...
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 9 |
The Italian Wars | 11 |
Giovanni Borgia | 17 |
Copyright | |
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