Couriers Tale by Walker, Peter

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198mm x 128mm x 21mm

Pages: 352

As the Kings young cousin, an admired scholar living in Italy, it falls to Reginald Pole to make the case for Henrys divorce from Katherine of Aragon. And it falls to the hapless Michael Throckmorton - the younger son of an impecunious titled family - to become Thomas Cromwells messenger to Pole in Rome. This dubious privilege makes of Throckmortons life a tragicomedy of endless journeys back and forth between England and Italy, but it also makes him a canny observer of the great dramas of his time. And like his King, he too nurses a thwarted desire.