The year is 1478, the dawn of the Renaissance. The War of the Roses have put Edward IV on the throne of England. Lorenzo the Magnificent's brilliant court blossoms on the wealth of the great Medici bank. Leonardo da Vinci is at work on his anatomical studies. But all is not quite as we know it. This is a changed world.
In Milan, Galeazza Maria Sforza, the Vampire Duke, sure of his control over his dreadful new ally, marshals his forces at last for his long-meditated attack on Florence. …
The year is 1478, the dawn of the Renaissance. The War of the Roses have put Edward IV on the throne of England. Lorenzo the Magnificent's brilliant court blossoms on the wealth of the great Medici bank. Leonardo da Vinci is at work on his anatomical studies. But all is not quite as we know it. This is a changed world.
In Milan, Galeazza Maria Sforza, the Vampire Duke, sure of his control over his dreadful new ally, marshals his forces at last for his long-meditated attack on Florence. . . .
In Switzerland, an exiled heir to the throne of Byzantium and a celebrated young woman physician join forces to expose an English traitor. . . .
On the northern marches of England, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who will become King Richard III, patrols a border smoldering with war amid a growing host of signs and portents. . . .
In Anjou, Louis XI, the Spider King, sits with a wizard-spy in a castle rich with the furnishings of all his lost palaces, plotting the ruin of Byzantine France. . . .
And in the Welsh hills, Hywel Peredur, nephew of Owain Glyn Dwr, watches the Red Dragon, Arthur's emblem, rise again to free Wales from the White Dragon of England. . . .
In palaces and prisons, on battlefields and in snowbound inns, they will all meet, for the Dragon is waiting for each of them.
Hardcover, 365 Seiten
Sprache: English
Am November 1983 von Timescape Books veröffentlicht.
