Caprice and Rondo (House of Niccolo/Dorothy Dunnett) - Hardcover

Dunnett, Dorothy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679454772 ISBN 13: 9780679454779

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 1998

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Recreating the world of the early Renaissance with cinematic vividness, the Scottish novelist continues the story of Nicholas de Fleury, an audacious merchant-adventurer who experiences the enormous changes sweeping fifteenth-century Europe. 17,500 first printing.

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: In the frozen port of Danzig, Nicholas de Fleury, one-time soldier, merchant, and banker to kings, leads his raffish companions on frivolous, drunken adventures that give little indication of the dark and complex events that have brought him among them--his activities as a spy; his shifts of allegiance from the Duke of Burgundy to the Holy Roman Emperor, and back; the mischief-making at the court of Scotland so vicious that his disgusted friends cast him into justifiable exile.

        In six vivid novels (synopsized in an introduction to this volume), the peerless Dorothy Dunnett has shown us Nicholas's progress from humble dyeworks apprentice to merchant prince with his own private army, consultant to duchies and kingdoms--even as he strives to understand his origins and to come to terms with his independent, contrary wife, Gelis. And now, as the ice melts in Danzig, Nicholas must decide his own future: Will he make a new life working for the It

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• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679454772
• ISBN 13: 9780679454779
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 539