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Description:Set in fourteenth century Italy, the story is about the enmity between two princes, Visconti, the evil Duke of Milan and Mastino della Scala, the dispossessed Duke of Verona. The hatred of these two men is the haut basis of the plot, but the lyrical descriptions of Milan and the countryside and the almost unbelievable cruelty and black heartedness of the unscrupulous Visconti, help to make the impact of this story a really tremendous one.Bowen's first novel, written when she was 16, but not published until a few years later. A historical romance set in late fourteenth century Italy about Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan, and his wars against the free towns of Northern Italy. Bowen's historical romances "were strong in plot and spectacle, the best-known being THE VIPER OF MILAN (1906) ... The narrative is wholeheartedly Gothic, with treacherous acts involving secret passages and poisoned gauntlets." - Kemp, Mitchell and Trotter, Edwardian Fiction, pp. 41; 400-01. In his introduction to the 1963 Penguin reprint, Graham Greene wrote that he read it aged 14 and "It was as if I had been supplied once and for all with a subject ... Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. I read all that in THE VIPER OF MILAN and I looked around and I saw that it was so ... I think it was Miss Bowen's apparent zest that made me want to write. One could not read her without believing that to write was to live and to enjoy." Nield, A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales (4th edition), p. 278.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Viper of Milan: A Romance of Lombardy (Young Spitfire). To get started finding The Viper of Milan: A Romance of Lombardy (Young Spitfire), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Elliot & Thompson Ltd

Release: 2004

ISBN: 1904027245

Description: Set in fourteenth century Italy, the story is about the enmity between two princes, Visconti, the evil Duke of Milan and Mastino della Scala, the dispossessed Duke of Verona. The hatred of these two men is the haut basis of the plot, but the lyrical descriptions of Milan and the countryside and the almost unbelievable cruelty and black heartedness of the unscrupulous Visconti, help to make the impact of this story a really tremendous one.Bowen's first novel, written when she was 16, but not published until a few years later. A historical romance set in late fourteenth century Italy about Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan, and his wars against the free towns of Northern Italy. Bowen's historical romances "were strong in plot and spectacle, the best-known being THE VIPER OF MILAN (1906) ... The narrative is wholeheartedly Gothic, with treacherous acts involving secret passages and poisoned gauntlets." - Kemp, Mitchell and Trotter, Edwardian Fiction, pp. 41; 400-01. In his introduction to the 1963 Penguin reprint, Graham Greene wrote that he read it aged 14 and "It was as if I had been supplied once and for all with a subject ... Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. I read all that in THE VIPER OF MILAN and I looked around and I saw that it was so ... I think it was Miss Bowen's apparent zest that made me want to write. One could not read her without believing that to write was to live and to enjoy." Nield, A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales (4th edition), p. 278.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Viper of Milan: A Romance of Lombardy (Young Spitfire). To get started finding The Viper of Milan: A Romance of Lombardy (Young Spitfire), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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