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What is Snared Nightingale about?

A charming little novel. The Italian-born son of an English knight , deceased, inherits a significant earldom in the Marches near the Welsh border.The snared nightingale, symbol of desire in Boccaccio’s bawdy Decameron, becomes the signature for a suave, witty tale of romance, intrigue and culture-clash set in Renaissance Italy and the England of Yorkist king Edward IV. Young Niccolo Sannazzaro is an impecunious scholar, a retainer at the elegant, cultured court of Duke Federigo of Urbino. To all intents and purposes Italian, he is the son of Sir Thomas Bray, an English knight and soldier of fortune who took his family to Italy and inconveniently died soon after. Left with a small child, Bray’s attractive widow soon married an Italian admirer. To his astonishment, Nicholas discovers that due to a bizarre series of deaths, he is now the Earl of Kyre, a holding of strategic importance in the Welsh Marches. Used to devious and often lethal Italian politics, he approaches his new role with caution, despite assurances that inviolable English laws of succession mean he needn’t fear assassination by a rival. http://www.historicalnovels.info/Snared-Nightingale.html

Author

Geoffrey Trease

Published

1957

Language

EN