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Author Bedini, Silvio A.

Title The Pope's elephant / Silvio A. Bedini.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2000.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  945.606 B39p 2000    ---  Available
Description x, 302 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Note "An elephant's journey from deep in India to the heart of Rome"--Cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-286) and index.
Contents The golden age -- The road to Rome -- The rose and the sword -- The elephant-diplomat -- The ill-fated rhinoceros -- 'The wheele of change' -- Remembrance and reflection -- The prey of time.
Summary Examines the court of Pope Leo X in sixteenth-century Rome, and discusses the popularity of the Pope's white elephant, Hanno, a gift from the king of Portugal.
Subject Papal States -- History -- Leo X, 1513-1521.
Rome (Italy) -- History -- 1420-1798.
Leo X, Pope, 1475-1521.
Renaissance -- Italy -- Papal States.
Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- Portugal.
Portugal -- Foreign relations -- Catholic Church.
Portugal -- History -- Manuel I, 1495-1521.
Manuel I, King of Portugal, 1469-1521.
Hanno (Elephant)
Elephants in art.
ISBN 0140288627
9780140288629

 
    
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