| Edition |
[American ed.]. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 220 pages) : map |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-211) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface (2005); Preface to the American Edition (2008); Translator's Note; Map of Europe in 1360; Chapter One, At Rome; Chapter Two, At Siena; Chapter Three, In the East; Chapter Four, In the West; Chapter Five, In Prision; Chapter Six, Giannino in History, Legend, and Literature; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Replete with shady merchants, scoundrels, hungry mercenaries, scheming nobles, and maneuvering cardinals, The Man Who Believed He Was King of France proves the adage that truth is often stranger than fiction--or at least as entertaining. The setting of this improbable but beguiling tale is 1354 and the Hundred Years' War being waged for control of France. Seeing an opportunity for political and material gain, the demagogic dictator of Rome tells Giannino di Guccio that he is in fact the lost heir to Louis X, allegedly switched at birth with the son of a Tuscan merchant. Once convinced of his bi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Impostors and imposture -- Europe.
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Impostors and imposture. |
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Europe. |
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Europe -- Kings and rulers.
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Kings and rulers. |
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Europe -- History -- 476-1492.
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
476-1492 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
Uomo che si credeva re di Francia. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008032323
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Di Carpegna Falconieri, Tommaso. Uomo che si credeva re di Francia. English. Man who believed he was king of France. [American ed.]. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008 (DLC) 2008020061 |
| ISBN |
9780226145273 (electronic book) |
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0226145271 (electronic book) |
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9780226145259 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226145255 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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