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  The Pope's Rhinoceros (Paperback) By (author) Lawrence Norfolk, Illustrated by Albrecht Durer

  

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  Short Description for The Pope's RhinocerosThe 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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  • Publisher: VINTAGE
  • Published: 03 February 1997
  • Format: Paperback 753 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780749398743 ISBN 10: 0749398744
  • Sales rank: 455,422

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• New novel in paperback from Lawrence Norfolk, author of the award-winning "Lempriere's Dictionary". Based on a 16th century Portuguese expedition to deliver a live rhinoceros to the vainglorious Pope Leo X, it takes us from the Baltic to India, West Africa and Tuscany, and is a richly coloured and many layered exploration of the fantasies and obsessions of the Renaissance. "A gargantuan, dazzling fable by Britain's brightest young writer" "The Guardian".