Man Who Believed He Was King of France

by Tommaso Di Carpegna Falconieri

Professor William McCuaig (Editor)

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Replete with shady merchants, scoundrels, hungry mercenaries, scheming nobles, and maneuvering cardinals, "The Man Who Believed He Was King of France" proves the adage that truth is often stranger than fiction - or at least as entertaining. The setting of this improbable but beguiling tale is 1354 and the Hundred Years' War being waged for control of France. Seeing an opportunity for political and material gain, the demagogic dictator of Rome tells Giannino di Guccio that he is in fact the lost heir to Louis X, allegedly switched at birth with the son of a Tuscan merchant. Once convinced...Read more
  • ISBN10 1282069756
  • ISBN13 9781282069756
  • Publish Date 1 January 2009 (first published 15 September 2008)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 3 June 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Chicago Press
  • Pages 220
  • Language English