The Scarlet City: A Novel of 16th Century Italy

If you've never read about this period in Italy, you'll have to write down a chart of who's who as you work your way through the book, but it will give you an opportunity to understand the interplay among the Italian cities, the papal cities, France and the Holy Roman Empire/Spain at this point in history. It's not an easy period to digest. If you lack familiarity with it you will have to put in some effort. If you ARE familiar with the historical setting, you will enjoy the book immensely. Hella Haasse is not an easy author to read if it's your first intro to a time period, but she is a fascinating writer to learn from.

It was a puzzled book but fun because i got to read about other histriola peple