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Online-Ressource (234 p.)
ISBN:
9780226145259
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Replete with shady merchants, scoundrels, hungry mercenaries, scheming nobles, and maneuvering cardinals, The Man Who Believed He Was King of France proves the adage that truth is often stranger than fiction-or at least as entertaining. The setting of this improbable but beguiling tale is 1354 and the Hundred Years' War being waged for control of France. Seeing an opportunity for political and material gain, the demagogic dictator of Rome tells Giannino di Guccio that he is in fact the lost heir to Louis X, allegedly switched at birth with the son of a Tuscan merchant. Once convinced of his bi
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Contents; Preface (2005); Preface to the American Edition (2008); Translator's Note; Map of Europe in 1360; Chapter One, At Rome; Chapter Two, At Siena; Chapter Three, In the East; Chapter Four, In the West; Chapter Five, In Prision; Chapter Six, Giannino in History, Legend, and Literature; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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ISBN 9780226145273
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ISBN 9780226145259
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Man Who Believed He Was King of France : A True Medieval Tale
Sprache:
Englisch
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