The Pope's rhinoceros: a novel
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The highly acclaimed author of Lempriere's Dictionary, which was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of 1992, returns with a vivid, antic, and picaresque fictional tapestry--reminiscent of The Name of ther Rose--which spins around one of history's most bizarre chapters: the 16th-century attempt to procure a rhinoceros for the amusement of Pope Leo X.
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051759532
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| Grouping Title | pope s rhinoceros |
| Grouping Author | norfolk lawrence |
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| Last Grouping Update | 2018-05-02 04:21:37AM |
| Last Indexed | 2018-09-23 04:29:08AM |
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| display_description | The Pope's Rhinoceros is a vivid, antic, and picaresque novel spun around one of history's most bizarre chapters: the sixteenth-century attempt to procure a rhinoceros as a bribe for Pope Leo X. In February 1516, a Portuguese ship sank off the coast of Italy. The Nostra Senora de Ajuda had sailed fourteen thousand miles from the Indian kingdom of Gujarat. Her mission: to bribe the "pleasure-loving Pope" into favoring expansionist Portugal over her rival Spain with the most exotic and least likely of gifts -- a living rhinoceros. Moving from the herring colonies of the Baltic Sea to the West African rain forest, with a cast of characters including an order of reclusive monks and Rome's corrupt cardinals, courtesans, ambassadors, and nobles, The Pope's Rhinoceros is at once a fantastic adventure tale and a portrait of an age rushing headlong to its crisis. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| subject_facet | Electronic books, Historical fiction, Leo -- X, -- Pope, -- 1475-1521 -- Fiction, Ocean travel -- Fiction, Papal States -- History -- Leo X, 1513-1521 -- Fiction, Portugal -- History -- 16th century -- Fiction, Rhinoceroses -- Fiction, Sea stories | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| title_display | The Pope's rhinoceros : a novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| title_full | The Pope's rhinoceros : a novel / Lawrence Norfolk, The Pope's rhinoceros : a novel [electronic resource] / Lawrence Norfolk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| title_short | The Pope's rhinoceros : | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| title_sub | a novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| topic_facet | Electronic books, History, Leo, Ocean travel, Rhinoceroses | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
