The Siege of Rhodes - Rilegato

Shiono, Nanami

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ISBN 10: 1932234322 ISBN 13: 9781932234329

Casa editrice: Vertical, 2006

Riassunto

By the early sixteenth century, Rhodes, the "Isle of Blossoming Roses," had become a thorn in the Ottoman Empire's side. In 1522, Sultan Suleiman I resolved to put an end to it and unleased a force of a hundred thousand troops to besiege the island. Rhode's proximity to Ottoman territory ensured that the Turkish soldiers would be well armed, well fed, and quickly replaced if killed or injured. Facing them was a force of only six hundred knights, fifteen hundred mercenaries, and three thousand native Rhodians.
In this second installment in The East Mediterranean Trilogy, Nanami Shiono weaves a narrative around a key battle between Islam and Christendom. A portrait of nobility and courage in the face of overwhelming odds, it also offers a rare glimpse into the history of one of the most important knightly orders, one that helped establish the tradition of medical care in the West as we know it today.

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L'autore

Nanami Shiono is the preeminent author of popular history in Japanese today. In survey after survey, the most powerful Japanese politicians and industrialists (many of whom she counts as personal friends) name her as their favorite author, and she enjoys a degree of influence in public discourse that few authors anywhere could hope to match. In 1970, the same year she won the first of many literary awards for her early masterpieceCesare Borgia, or Elegant Cruelty, she moved permanently to her adopted home of Italy. Although she first rose to prominence as an author of works set in Renaissance Italy, her expertise has widened to include the Mediterranean as a whole, as well as ancient Rome (which she treats in her bestselling fifteen-volume history,The Tale of the Romans). The East Mediterranean Trilogy, completed in 1987, remains among her most enduringly popular works. The first volume,The Fall of Constantinople, is available from Vertical, and the last, The Battle of Lepanto, is forthcoming.

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Book by Nanami Shiono

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• Editore: Vertical
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1932234322
• ISBN 13: 9781932234329
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 240