Lo ammetto, a me gli storici non mi hanno mai appassionato, questo è stato un regalo da un caro amico, allora mi ci sono voluta buttare dentro.Inizio non molto convinta, eppure questa ragazza mi prende ogni giorno di più, e ogni minuto mi addentro dentro di lei come se quello che stesse passando ...
Isabel de Castilla fue la reina guerrera que culminó la Reconquista y favoreció el viaje a Cristóbal Colón a América, pero poco sabemos de sus primeros años, del aislamiento de su infancia junto a una madre mentalmente inestable, o de cómo desde muy joven se vio obligada a vivir en la corte de su...
I really wanted to like this better, but I was confused by the politics of the time period, and all the double-crosses and deceptions, and felt like an idiot for not understanding why this person wanted to arrest that person, kill that person, or wield power over that other person. Because of th...
Gortner does a very fine job of putting his fictional characters in and among real historical figures for the Tudor era. At the end of the work, he gives full disclosure of what pieces of history he bent to tell his tale. His characters are flushed out and I cared what happened to them. The "s...
Book Synopsis:Juana of Castile, the last queen of Spanish blood to inherit her country’s throne, has been for centuries and enigmatic figure shrouded in lurid myth. Was she the berefet widow of legend who was driven mad by her loss, or has history misjudged a woman who was ahead of her time? In...
A The Tudor Book Blog Review(http://www.thetudorbookblog.com).Summary:This story follows an orphaned stable boy, Brendon Prescott, on a search to discover his past, as well as save the Princesses Mary and Elizabeth.Found abandoned as a baby, he is taken in by the powerful Dudley family. When he i...
Autumn had come to France. Burnished leaves hung on the oaks and opal splendor bathed the hills. Four months had passed since Charles’s death—four long and difficult months, during which I’d buried him, sent his widow to Chenonceau, and labored to secure the realm. Now I had received word that He...