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Pesaro

Subject: History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)

During the Renaissance, the Italian city of Pesaro was one of the most important centres of maiolica production. Important patrons included the Sforza family and Isabella d’Este, who ...

Sabatini, Rafael

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The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature, Literary studies (20th century onwards)
Length:
416 words

... ( 1907 ) in medieval Italy, and Anthony Wilding ( 1910 ) in England during Monmouth's rebellion. The Shame of Motley ( 1908 ) is ‘the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazarro Biancomonte of Biancomonte, sometime Fool of the Court of Pesaro’. Biancomonte seeks revenge on the Duke of Pesaro, to whose court he is sent by Cesare Borgia , on a commission of a Borgian character. The South Sea Bubble of 1720 and Jacobite intrigue form the background to The Lion's Skin ( 1911 ): the son of a French woman by an English peer is brought up to...

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