Condottiere · A Knight's Tale
- Authors
- Crockett, Edward John
- Publisher
- Polygon
- Tags
- war , middle-ages , historical fiction , knights , middle-ages.hundred years war
- ISBN
- 9781904598718
- Date
- 2006-04-20T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.30 MB
- Lang
- en
"Of all able captains of whom it might have stood in fear, Florence was most at the discretion of this one man."-Niccolo Machiavelli Europe writhes in the grasp of the Black Death as an enigmatic English knight ventures into war-torn medieval Italy. Based on exhaustive research, this is splendidly realized historical fiction and a truly compelling adventure.
Edward John Crockett is a translator and editor of numerous books, including sports biographies, art history, and film biographies. He is the author of the novel Bering: A Novel of the Russian Imperial Northern Expedition. He lives in southern Brittany.