SOTR 17
Spring of the Ram Chapter 17
[edit | edit source]Plot Summary
[edit | edit source]Dates
[edit | edit source]end March, 1461 [March was ending ...]
Fictional Characters
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- Godscalc
- her priest
- her female servant
- the eunuch
- Nicholas
- John le Grant
- the doctor
- her elderly maidservant
- Pagano Doria
- Michael Crackbene
- Catherine
- Astorre
- Julius
- Marian de Charetty (referenced)
- Tobie (referenced)
- Lionetto (referenced)
- the Archimandrite (referenced)
- the new Genoese consul (referenced)
- the new Florentine agent (referenced)
- Catherine's mother (referenced)
- the demoiselle his employer (referenced)
Non-Fictional Characters
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- their Imperial passenger
- Violante
- the Emperor's great niece
- the lady Violante (referenced)
- George Amiroutzes, Chancellor of Trebizond (referenced)
- Cardinal Bessarion of Trebizond (referenced)
- the Emperor (referenced)
- Michael Alighieri (referenced)
- Cosimo de' Medici (referenced)
- the Pope
- Sultan Mehmet II (referenced)
- Caterino Zeno (referenced)
Locations
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- The Doria, on the Black Sea
- The Ciaretti, on the Black Sea
- the Euxine
- Sinope
- Samsûn
- Bruges (referenced)
- Constantinople (referenced)
- Caucasus Mountains (referenced)
- Khanate of the Crim Tartars (referenced)
- Muscovy (referenced)
- Crimean Coast (referenced)
- Caffa (referenced)
- Seville (referenced)
- Rome (referenced)
- Byzantium (referenced)
- Baghdad (referenced)
- Trebizond (referenced)
- Tophane (referenced)
- Modon (referenced)
- Venice (referenced)
- Stamboul (referenced)
- Sluys (referenced)
- Kerasous (referenced)
- Pera (referenced)
- Genoa (referenced)
Other References
[edit | edit source]- silk, spices and indigo
- news-gathering balingers
- his Jasons
- Zeus lord of the sacrificed Ram
- Hercules
- the dragon
- Xenophon
- the local honey
- Hercules
- Platonic instruction
- Aristotelian and Homeric as well
- touch of the Livys
- in the Latin style
- acrostics