The historical nights' entertainment /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Garden City publishing co., inc.,
[1939]
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| Edition: | De luxe ed. |
| Item Description: | The night of escape; Casanova's escape from the Piombi. The night of masquerade; the assassination of Gustavus III of Sweden.--Second series; The absolution; Affonso Henriques, first king of Portugal. The false Demetrius; Boris Godunov and the pretended son of Ivan the Terrible. The hermosa fembra; and episode of the Inquisition in Sevill. The pastry-cook of Madrigal; the story of the false Sebastian of Portugal. The end of the "vert galant"; the assassination of Henry IV. The barren wooing; the murder of Amy Robsart. Sir Judas; the betrayal of Sir Walter Ralegh. His Insolence of Buckingham; George Villiers' courtship of Anne of Austria. The path of exile; the fall of Lord Clarendon. The tragedy of Herrenhausen; Count Philip Konigsmark and the Princess Sophia Dorothea. The tyrannicide; Charlott Corday and Jean Paul Marat. The honour of Varano. The lust of conquest. The Pasquinade. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 page ., [v]-xii, 2 ., [3]-404 pages, 3 ., [ix]-xiii, [3]-404 pages ; 22 cm. |