The Viper of Milan: A Romance of Lombardy by Marjorie Bowen

Description

Bowen took the true record of the Visconti tyrants and built from it a novel of almost mythic black and gold, where the Viper’s cruelty is balanced only by the compressed, doomed nobility of his opponents. The scenes of Renaissance Italian courts — their rages, their devotions, their sudden violences — are struck off with a precocity that astonished critics then and impresses readers still.

The book’s melodrama is deliberate and magnificent; beneath it, Bowen is already the student of power and murder who would become one of the century’s most respected historical novelists.

Why readers still come back to it

• The historical romance that launched Marjorie Bowen’s fame.
• Gian Galeazzo Visconti and the poisoned glories of Milan.
• Precociously brilliant and never out of print since 1903.

About this DodaBooks edition

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