City of God (Holland novel)
OCLC 3845422 | | |
City of God: A Novel of the Borgias is a 1979
Plot
Nicholas Dawson is the secretary to the ambassador of Florence in Rome; clever and ambitious, he is homosexual and a highly educated commoner born in Spain to English parents. Soon Nicholas is enlisted as a double agent for the ruthless Cesare Borgia, and his contact in Florence is none other than Niccolò Machiavelli himself.[1]
Critical reception
David Maclaine called City of God a "gripping" novel of "slowly mounting tension leading to an intense pay-off. It is a brilliant introduction to the people and events that gave us the word 'Machiavellian.'"
References
- ^ a b c Maclaine, David. "City of God by Cecelia Holland". Historicalnovels.info. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
- ^ "Library Notes". The Sylva Herald and Ruralite: 9. August 23, 1979. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
- Library Review. 104 (5). Greeley, Colorado: University of Northern Colorado Library: 648.
Further reading
- Jackson, David (September 27, 1979). "The Finger and the Ear". The New York Review of Books: 54–55.
- "Book Reviews: City of God by Cecelia Holland (and others)". Time. Vol. 113, no. 15. April 1979. p. 82.
- "City of God by Cecelia Holland". Bookshare. January 16, 2015. Retrieved July 22, 2015.
 | This article about a novel of the 1970s with a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender theme is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. See guidelines for writing about novels. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page. |