Pope's Rhinoceros

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ISBN: 9780749398743

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Attribute name	Attribute value
Author	NORFOLK LAWRENCE
Pub Date	03/02/1997
Binding	Paperback
Pages	768

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

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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 first pilgrimage in 200 years.

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In February 1516, a Portugese ship sank with the loss of all hands a mile off the coast of Italy. The Nostra Senora da Adjuda had sailed 14000 miles from the Indian kingdom Gujarat: her mission, to deliver a rhinoceros to the Pope. The Pope's Rhinoceros tells the stories which culminate in this bizarre incident. Ranging from the Baltic Sea to a flyblown colony in India, from a tribe hidden in the African rain forest to atrocities committed in an obscure town in Tuscany, Norfolk's brilliant novel holds up the true history of the rhinoceros as a mirror to the fantasies and obsessions of the Renaissance.