The Pilgrimage of Princes. B.L.
Author : Lodowick LLOYD
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Page : 470 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 1586
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Author : Lodowick LLOYD
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Page : 470 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 1586
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Author : Thomas and John Egerton (Firm)
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Page : 446 pages
File Size : 42,61 MB
Release : 1789
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Author : Thomas and John Egerton
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Page : 908 pages
File Size : 32,67 MB
Release : 1790
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Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Page : 652 pages
File Size : 11,16 MB
Release : 1903
Category : English literature
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Author : Thomas and John Egerton (Firm)
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Page : 406 pages
File Size : 15,14 MB
Release : 1788
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Page : 860 pages
File Size : 28,39 MB
Release : 1903
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Author : John Thomas Payne
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Page : 480 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 1842
Category : Epic poetry, Greek
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Author : John Thomas Payne
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Page : 474 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 1842
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Author : Thomas Grenville
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 15,43 MB
Release : 2024-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385129974
Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
Author : Ann Wroe
Publisher : Random House
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 46,54 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307432475
In 1491, as Machiavelli advised popes and princes and Leonardo da Vinci astonished the art world, a young man boarded a ship in Portugal bound for Ireland. He would be greeted upon arrival as the rightful heir to the throne of England. The trouble was, England already had a king. The most intriguing and ambitious pretender in history, this elegant young man was celebrated throughout Europe as the prince he claimed to be: Richard, Duke of York, the younger of the “Princes in the Tower” who were presumed to have been murdered almost a decade earlier. Handsome, well-mannered, and charismatic, he behaved like the perfect prince, and many believed he was one. The greatest European rulers of the age—among them the emperor Maximilian, Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, and Charles VIII of France—used him as a diplomatic pawn to their own advantage. As such, he tormented Henry VII for eight years, attempting to invade England three times. Eventually, defeated and captured, he admitted to being Perkin Warbeck, the son of a common boatman from Flanders. But was this really the truth? Ann Wroe, a historian and storyteller of the first rank, delves into the secret corners of the late medieval world to explore both the elusive nature of identity and the human propensity for deception. In uncovering the mystery of Perkin Warbeck, Wroe illuminates not only a life but an entire world trembling on the verge of discovery.