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Most people consider Cesare Borgia one of history?

A man wrongly punished for treason escapes from slavery in the West Indies tobecome a savvy pirate, yet he longs for the plantation owner's niece.

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Sir Oliver Tessilian, a Cornish nobleman, is abandoned or betrayed by everyone he ever loved. He is framed for murder, affronted and shunned by his fiancA(c) and sold into slavery by his half brother.

Sir Oliver Tessilian, a Cornish nobleman, is abandoned or betrayed by everyone he ever loved. He is framed for murder, affronted and shunned by his fiancA(c) and sold into slavery by his half brother.

Short Description: The famous tale of a gentleman, betrayed by his brother into slavery, who triumphs as the dreaded pirate captain "The Hawk of the Sea, " wreaks his vengeance on his enemies and wins back the girl of his heart.Full Description: Sir Oliver Tressilian, a gentleman of wealth and status in 16th-century Cornwall in England, is betrayed by his brother, spurned by the woman he loves, and sold into slavery. Escaping the slavers, he b...

The Memoir of Certain Transactions in the Life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime Fool of the Court of Pesaro, and trusted hand of Cesar Borgia. (Jacketless library hardcover.)

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Eighteen years ago, Sir Crispin Galliard, the Tavern Knight in service of King Charles, was another man -- a man with another name, a man who had a life, a future, and a heritage -- including hereditary lands and titles that would come to him in time. Eighteen years ago, two foul neighbors -- Cromwell?

You are not a coward, Monsieur, " said the dark lady. "I have been accounted many unsavory things, Madame, but my bitterest enemies never dubbed me that." "Why, then, did you run away?" "Why? Ma foi! because in the excessive humility of my soul I recognized myself unfit to die." It was a day that set events in motion that shaped history for centuries to come.

Most people consider Cesare Borgia one of history's great question marks. After initially entering the church and becoming a cardinal on his father's election to the Papacy, he became the first person to resign a cardinalcy after the death of his brother in 1498. His father set him up as a prince with territory carved from the Papal States, but after his father's death he was unable to retain power for long. According to Machiavelli this was d...

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In approaching The Historical Nights' Entertainment I set myself the task of reconstructing, in the fullest possible detail and with all the color available from surviving records, a group of more or less famous events. I would select for my purpose those which were in themselves bizarre and resulting from the interplay of human passions, and whilst relating each of these events in the form of a story, I would compel that story scrupulously to...

Der auf allen Meeren gefürchtete Kapitän Tom Leach, der Herr des Piratenschiffs Schwarzer Schwan, hat die zauberhafte Miss Harradine in Gefangenschaft gebracht, die allein durch ihre bloße Anwesenheit an Bord Stürme der Leidenschaft und Eifersucht entfesselt. Tom Leachs Gegenspieler, Monsieur de Bernis, selbst ein Abenteurer, gewinnt durch seine Tapferkeit, seinen Scharfsinn und auch durch seine Galanterie das Herz der schönen Frau. Wie er sic...