Giordano Bruno (5 books in series)
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review 1: Not for the faint hearted.One tends to forget, in celebrating the richness and glories of Elizabeth 1st reign, that hideous state ordered torture and death continued under Elizabeth's spymaster in chief Sir Francis Walsingham presumably with Royal sanction. Heresy, the first book...
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review 1: I did not know this book had been published but was delighted when I found it in Asia Books in Bangkok. The fourth in a series where the main character is the radical philosopher, ex-monk, and Walsingham spy, Giordano Bruno. After Bruno's last escapade, he is losing favor with ...
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review 1: this is an easy enough read, but I've been spoilt by C J Sansoms Tudor books. this pales in comparison. the story did not seem to emanate any atmosphere. the "hero" of the piece, Guiardano Bruno, is based on a real character from the time. Why did the author not have a fictional ...
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review 1: This is the second of these books by Ms. Parris and I look forward to her next. I have been turned on by historical mystery and with Giordano Bruno as the protagonist still hiding out in England to escape being arrested as a heretic and actually acting as a spy for England in the...
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review 1: This was an interesting book. The beginning of it was a bit too long winded for my liking but I stayed with it because I was interested in the mystery the story was built around. This book shows that even though we think of the period this book was placed in, as a "simpler" tim...