The Pope's Rhinoceros

The author of Lempriere's Dictionary, which was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of 1992, returns with a vivid, antic, and picaresque fictional tapestry reminiscent of The Name of the Rose which spins around one of history's most bizarre chapters: the 16th-century attempt to procure a rhinoceros for the amusement of Pope Leo X.

• Author
• Lawrence Norfolk

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 592

• Publisher
• Grove Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780802139887

• Genres
• fiction, historical, italy, literature, novels, religion, contemporary, fantasy

• Release date
• 2003