The Popes Rhinoceros

The Popes Rhinoceros

Lawrence Norfolk

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Penguin Random House UK
Año de edición:
1997
ISBN:
9780749398743
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In February 1516 a Portugese ship sank with the loss of all hands a mile off the coast of Italy. The Nostra Senora da Adjuda had sailed 14000 miles from the Indian kingdom Gujarat: her mission to deliver a rhinoceros to the Pope. The Pope’s Rhinoceros tells the stories which culminate in this bizarre incident. Ranging from the Baltic Sea to a flyblown colony in India from a tribe hidden in the African rain forest to atrocities committed in an obscure town in Tuscany Norfolk’s brilliant novel holds up the true history of the rhinoceros as a mirror to the fantasies and obsessions of the Renaissance.

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