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"The acclaimed author of Lempri�re's Dictionary furnishes another richly textured romp steeped in history, legend, and excitement." --BooklistThe 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.…
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- Author: Lawrence Norfolk
- Publisher: Grove Press
- Year: 2007
- Pages: 592
- ISBN: 9780802199423
- ISBN-10: 0802199429
- ISBN-13: 9780802199423
- Format: ePub
- Language: English
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"The acclaimed author of Lempri�re's Dictionary furnishes another richly textured romp steeped in history, legend, and excitement." --BooklistThe 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.
"An exhausting banquet of a book . . . One of the most original, energetic, and ambitious novels of recent years." --Kirkus Reviews
"Mr. Norfolk's heady originality and intellectual energy are apparent on every page." --The New York Times Book Review
- Author: Lawrence Norfolk
- Publisher: Grove Press
- Year: 2007
- Pages: 592
- ISBN: 9780802199423
- ISBN-10: 0802199429
- ISBN-13: 9780802199423
- Format: ePub
- Language: English English
"The acclaimed author of Lempri�re's Dictionary furnishes another richly textured romp steeped in history, legend, and excitement." --Booklist
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.
"An exhausting banquet of a book . . . One of the most original, energetic, and ambitious novels of recent years." --Kirkus Reviews
"Mr. Norfolk's heady originality and intellectual energy are apparent on every page." --The New York Times Book Review
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.
"An exhausting banquet of a book . . . One of the most original, energetic, and ambitious novels of recent years." --Kirkus Reviews
"Mr. Norfolk's heady originality and intellectual energy are apparent on every page." --The New York Times Book Review
Reviews