Prince of Foxes (1947)

by Samuel Shellabarger

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For when your copy of Prisoner of Zenda has finally fallen apart. I adore it's rollicking attitude and conventional morals. Interesting use of the word "chevy" as a verb. (

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Intrigue! Romance! Wit! Double crossings! Saints, villains, heroes, artists, Borgias...

This book has everything.

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Das Spiel des Andrea Orsini

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Prince of Foxes

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Alfonso d'Este, duke of Ferrara

Lady Camilla Varano

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New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1947)

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To my daughter Marianne

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It was to be a lute this time, a lute fit for an angel.

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An historical novel set during Cesare Borgia's campaign to conquer the Romagna region of Italy in the late 1490s-early 1500s. Andrea Zoppo, an Italian peasant-soldier, changes his identity during the French invasion of Florence to become Andrea Orsini, a member of an old aristocratic family. He takes service with Cesare Borgia, and is sent on a mission to the fictional city of Citta del Monte to help Borgia take over the city by treachery -- by suborning its people and assassinating its ruler, the elderly Lord Varano. But once in the city, Andrea falls under the influence of Lord Varano's nobility of character and devotion to his people, and in love with Varano's young wife, the beautiful Lady Camilla. . .

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Set in Renaissance Italy, this classic of American popular fiction is the story of Andrea Orsini, a peasant boy who rises to perform delicate political, military, and romantic missions for Cesare Borgia.

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