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 20
... blood with it — and , they say , the blood of most of his bastards . I suppose I should consider myself fortunate that I've been spared physical infirmities . My suffering is invisible : my soul has been poisoned . So in France I could ...
... blood with it — and , they say , the blood of most of his bastards . I suppose I should consider myself fortunate that I've been spared physical infirmities . My suffering is invisible : my soul has been poisoned . So in France I could ...
Pagina 21
... blood , I have Pope Alexander to thank , the father of Cesare and Lucrezia . As the bastard of the illegitimate son of a former vicar of Christ on earth , I could in a certain sense consider myself to be a member of a dynasty . In my ...
... blood , I have Pope Alexander to thank , the father of Cesare and Lucrezia . As the bastard of the illegitimate son of a former vicar of Christ on earth , I could in a certain sense consider myself to be a member of a dynasty . In my ...
Pagina 197
... blood of his blood , and yet harmless , defenseless , in her power . When I weighed up these arguments , the rest — the infamous insinuations overheard in Bari and Naples - appeared to be noth- ing but slander . The name of Borgia has ...
... blood of his blood , and yet harmless , defenseless , in her power . When I weighed up these arguments , the rest — the infamous insinuations overheard in Bari and Naples - appeared to be noth- ing but slander . The name of Borgia has ...
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 9 |
The Italian Wars | 11 |
Giovanni Borgia | 17 |
Copyright | |
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