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The devil's broker : seeking gold, God, and glory in fourteenth-century Italy / Frances Stonor Saunders.
- Title
- The devil's broker : seeking gold, God, and glory in fourteenth-century Italy / Frances Stonor Saunders.
- Author
- Saunders, Frances Stonor.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Fourth Estate, ©2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | DG536.H4 S28 2004b | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
- Description
- xviii, 396 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The Devil's Broker is more than a riveting account of fortunes gained and lost by treachery and the sword: it is a lavish portrait of the fourteenth century, which Barbara Tuchman called "calamitous"; the Black Plague that struck down the mighty and the abject with equal ferocity; the violent schism in the Catholic Church that sent the Pope scurrying to Avignon for safety; the religious mania offset by a gargantuan appetite for spectacle, luxury, and self-indulgence. Among the other.
- Titans moving through Frances Slonor Saunders's magnificent narrative are the anorexic and power hungry St. Catherine of Siena, an ill-tempered and comfort-loving Petrarch, and a curious and amused diplomat-spy named Geoffrey Chaucer, who would draw on Hawkwood's career for his own "Knight's Tale."" "The meticulous archiving and record-keeping of medieval Italian notaries means that this history has come to us in the intimate words of its most vital actors; Frances Stonor Saunders has.
- Combed tirelessly through original documents to produce a history seemingly as immediate and relevant as events of yesterday."--Jacket.
- Uniform Title
- Hawkwood
- Alternative Title
- Hawkwood
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Presentation copies (Provenance)
- Association copies (Provenance)
- collective biographies.
- Biographies.
- Military history.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-381) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The fourteenth century: ways to die -- Ways to live -- Bad company -- Avignon, whore of France -- Sons of Belial -- Italia mia -- Betrayal -- Naked force -- Vipers of Milan -- State of decline -- The road to Rome -- The first estate -- Overeating -- Undereating -- Virtue's shame -- How to get to heaven -- Florence -- Bloody saints -- Freedom fighters -- Anathema -- Cardinal vices -- From massacre to marriage -- The other woman -- Schism -- Stories from Troy -- Neapolitan question -- Viper swallows viper -- The wheel of fortune -- The last campaign -- Final audit -- The greatest glory -- What remains -- Pale hore, pale rider.
- ISBN
- 006077729X
- 9780060777296
- LCCN
- 2005040054
- OCLC
- 60525559
- SCSB-11624810
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library