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The Pope's Rhinoceros by Lawrence Norfolk

The Pope's Rhinoceros

Lawrence Norfolk

753 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

fiction historical challenging reflective slow-paced
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The tale of the sinking of a Portuguese ship off the coast of Italy in 1516, while attempting to deliver a rhinoceros to Pope Leo X. The hero, Salvestro, is caught up in a mission to Rome by a sect of secretive monks from a Baltic island, their fi...

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