The Pope's Rhinoceros by Lawrence Norfolk

The Pope's Rhinoceros

Lawrence Norfolk

574 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

fiction historical challenging reflective slow-paced
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The Pope's Rhinoceros is a vivid, antic, and picaresque novel spun around one of history's most bizarre chapters: the sixteenth-century attempt to procure a rhinoceros as a bribe for Pope Leo X. In February 1516, a Portuguese ship sank off the coa...

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