by Lawrence Norfolk · Holt Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780805054750
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«The Pope's Rhinoceros» is the historical novel by Lawrence Norfolk, published by Holt Paperbacks in paperback (592 pages, in English).
The work is inspired by a real episode: the attempt to obtain a rhinoceros to give to Pope Leo X in the sixteenth century. With an extensive cast of characters, it blends picaresque adventure with the portrait of an era on the brink of crisis.
Work published in 1997 and nominated for the Dublin Literary Award in 1998; reprinted edition.
For readers of historical fiction and picaresque adventures, with an interest in the Renaissance and the Papal States.
Lawrence Norfolk is a British novelist known for historical works with complex plots and intricate detail.
