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574 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780802139887
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Grove Press
Publication date: 14 April 2003
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The Pope's Rhinoceros is a vivid, antic, and picaresque novel spun around one of history's most bizarre chapters: the sixteenth-century attempt to procure a rhinoceros as a bribe for Pope Leo X. In February 1516, a Portuguese ship sank off the coa...
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574 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780802139887
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Grove Press
Publication date: 14 April 2003
Description
The Pope's Rhinoceros is a vivid, antic, and picaresque novel spun around one of history's most bizarre chapters: the sixteenth-century attempt to procure a rhinoceros as a bribe for Pope Leo X. In February 1516, a Portuguese ship sank off the coa...
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