UH 33
UH 33
Unicorn Hunt Ch 33
[edit | edit source]Plot Summary
[edit | edit source]Dates
[edit | edit source]June 1470
Fictional Characters
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- Nicholas vander Poele
- Tobias Beventini
- Priest with the long beard
- Kathi’s Jewish tutor
- Ochoa de Marchena (referenced)
- Abbott of St Sabas
Non-Fictional Characters
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- Katelijne Sersanders
- John le Grant
- Sigismond, Duke of the Tyrol (referenced)
- David de Salmeton (referenced)
- Venetian Consul’s wife
- Anselm Adorne (referenced)
- Vizier Abdallah b Zanbur (referenced)
- Sultan Qayt Bey (referenced)
- Sultan Mehmet (referenced)
- Cardinal Bessarion (referenced)
- The Despot Thomas (referenced)
Locations
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- Alexandria
- Pharos (referenced)
- Pepper Gate (referenced)
- Rosetta (referenced)
- Cairo (referenced)
- Pompey’s Pillar (referenced)
- Lake Mareotis (referenced)
- Trebizond (referenced)
- Cyprus (referenced)
- Canopic Way
- Gate of the Sun (referenced)
- Street of the Soma (referenced)
- Constantinople (referenced)
- Negroponte (referenced)
- Modon (referenced)
- Crete (referenced)
- Corfu (referenced)
- Venice (referenced)
- Vienna (referenced)
- Prison of St Catherine of Alexandria
- Timbuktu (referenced)
- Church of St Sabas the Sanctified
- Joliba (referenced)
- Rome (referenced)
- Nicosia (referenced)
- Zacco / James of Cyprus (referenced)
Literature
[edit | edit source]- The Odyssey
- The Iliad
- Who sculpted Love and set him by the pool, Thinking with liquid such a flame to cool (from the poet of Mouseion)
Other References
[edit | edit source]- Aeolus
- The Mouseion
- Callimachus
- Berenice (her hair becomes a constellation, poem by Callimachus)
- Seventy rabbits in seventy huts
- Hephaestion
- Maghgreb
- Ful madames
- St Catherine
- Painting by St Luke
- C’est pour loiaute maintenir
- Blessed Saint Ekaterina
Quotes from Dunnett
[edit | edit source]Controversies
[edit | edit source]Previous/Next
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- Nicholas says “I could do you a good line in L’s” (Vintage p 419), which reverences Lymond and Philippa’s “Languish locked in L” scene in Checkmate.