The House of Niccolo: Niccolo Rising: v. 1

by Dorothy Dunnett (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1986

  $4.23

  Dunnett has chosen the 15th-century Low Countries as the setting for her historical series. The four-page list of characters announces the panoply of individuals, many based on historical persons.

• Used

  Paperback
  1987

  $3.28

• New

  Paperback
  1988

  $14.19

  The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among them, none is bolder or more cunning than Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, the good-natured dyers apprentice who schemes and swashbucukes his way to thehelm of a merchantile empire. NICCOLO RISING, Book One of the series, finds us in Bruges, 1460. Street smart, brilliant at figures, adept at the subtleties of diplomacy and the well-timed untruth, Dunnett's hero rises from wastrel to prodigy in abreathless adventure that wins him the love of the strongest woman in Bruges and the hatred of two powerful enemies. NICCOLO RISING combines history, adventure and high romance in the tradition stretching from Alexandre Dumas to Mary Renault.