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The Palace

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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#2332 of 8,085 books · #222 in Horror

Shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (1980) and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (1980).

Since 1978, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has produced about two dozen novels and numerous short stories detailing the life of a character first introduced to the reading world as Le Comte de Saint-Germain. We first meet him in Paris during the reign of Louis XV when he is, apparently, a wealthy, worldly, charismatic aristocrat, envied and desired by many but fully known to none. In fact, he is a vampire, born in the Carpathian Mountains in 2119 BC, turned in his late-thirties in 2080 BC and destined to roam the world forever, watching and participating in history and, through the author, giving us an amazing perspective on the time-tapestry of human civilization. In The Palace, Renaissance Florence provides the background for this story of the collapse of the artistic and literary life of the city after the death of San Germano's friend, Lorenzo the Magnificent, followed by the rise of the fanatical Savonarola.

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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-13
9780575127470
Topics
VampiresRenaissance FlorenceArt and politics under religious extremism

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