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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I tend not to re-read books. But this is one I read multiple times in HS and college. Sadly, I don't have a copy to re-read today. Yarbro does a masterful job juxtaposing the real-world life of the poet Ariosto against the imaginary, alt-history world of his imagination, the subject of his epic poems. ( ) I was intrigued by the cover of this Renaissance-set fantasy, but unfortunately it didn't live up to expectations. Split between 'reality' and 'fantasy', it follows the daydreams of the poet Ludovico Ariosto, who seeks to escape his mundane life through fantasies of being a great paladin among the peoples of the New World. The concept was fun, but unfortunately the book never quite gets its momentum going, and I was disappointed to find that Ariosto's 'reality' has been rewritten as a Renaissance alternative universe in which all the famous people conveniently still existed. I would much rather have had the contrast between historical fiction and fantasy which the blurb implies. Maybe my disappointment comes from mistaken expectations; but even beyond that it didn't particularly grab me as a piece of writing. For a full review, please see my blog: http://theidlewoman.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/ariosto-chelsea-quinn-yarbro.html In spite of the St. Germain in parenthesis in the listing this is not one of Yarbro's St. Germain novels. This book is more of a Walter Mittyesque escape. The mundane life of the title character goes from actuality to what he is fantasizing about. I found the book tedious and never finished reading it. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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In an alternate-world Italian Renaissance where the Italian states have formed a federation, the great epic poet Ludovico Ariosto is writing a fantasy adventure set in the New World that reflects the difficulties besetting his patron, Damiano de' Medici. While the Cerrochi in Ariosto's fantasy battle the evil wizard Anatrecacciatore with the help of a heroic version of Ariosto himself, politics and skullduggery plague the Florence-based court of Italia Federata, in which Ariosto becomes enmeshed when he chooses to support the Medicis against those seeking to fracture the Italian union. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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