01673nam a2200217z 4500
25458601
VMATH
20220413104823.0
210717b xxk 000 1 eng|d
9781800160545
NJB
VMATH
Quinn, Paul.
The Venetian crusader /
Paul Quinn.
Cambridge :
Vanguard Press,
2021.
305 pages ;
24 cm.
"Venice 1201 AD
The body of a french spy floats down the canal, his throat slit, as his masters prepare for a journey that will determine their destiny, in this life and the next.
Having answered the pope's call to take back the Holy Land, they are forced to negotiate with the aged Doge of Venice, Enrico Dandolo, who agrees to build them the largest fleet since the days of the Roman Empire, but it's only when the French Crusaders are at their most vulnerable that the doge starts to reveal his true intentions.
To the east, the deposed Byzantine emperor rots in a prison cell as his son conspires with the queen of Germany to take back the throne.
As the Latin and Byzantine empires head on a collision course, their leaders abuse power, religion and each other, but it's a Spanish monk's rediscovery of ancient knowledge that may prove decisive.
Join Venetian agent, Achille, as he navigates us on a journey of deceit and treachery from the laneways of Venice to the trade routes of the Silk Road and the impregnable walls of Constantinople." -- Back cover
General.
Venice (Italy)
History
697-1508
Fiction.
Venise (Italie)
Histoire
697-1508
Romans, nouvelles, etc.
ddc
BKS
0
0
ddc
0
0
H.F.
ATH
ATH
2022-04-13
James Bennett
1
QUI
063657
2022-07-23 00:00:00
2022-07-07
2021-07-30
BKS
90769
90769