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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants

Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants

Mandell, Charlotte
Énard, Mathias

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General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $14.95

ISBN10: 0811228940
ISBN13: 9780811228947
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Oct 29 2019
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English

In 1506, Michelangelo--a young but already renowned sculptor--is invited by the sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. The sultan has offered, along with an enormous payment, the promise of immortality, since Leonardo da Vinci's design was rejected: You will surpass him in glory if you accept, for you will succeed where he has failed, and you will give the world a monument without equal. Michelangelo, after some hesitation, flees Rome and an irritated Pope Julius II--whose commission he leaves unfinished--and arrives in Constantinople for this truly epic project. Once there, he explores the beauty and wonder of the Ottoman Empire, sketching and describing his impressions along the way, as he struggles to create what could be his greatest architectural masterwork.

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