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Rome, 1635, and Grantville's diplomatic team, headed by Sharon Nichols, are making scant headway now it has become politically inexpedient for Pope Urban VIII to talk to them any more. Sharon doesn't mind, she has a wedding to plan. Frank Stone has moved to Rome and is attempting to bring about the revolution one pizza at a time. Cardinal Borja is gathering votes to bring the Church's reformers to a halt in their tracks, on the orders of the King of Spain. Meanwhile, trouble is brewing in the streets, shadowy agitators are stirring up trouble and Spain's armies are massed across the border in the Kingdom of Naples, Cardinal Barberini wants the pamphleteers to stop slandering him and it looks like it's going to be a long, hot summer. Except that Cardinal Borja has more ambitions than his masters in Madrid know about, and has the assistance of Spain's most notorious secret agent to bring about his sinister designs.… (mere)
Italy is a mess of states, many under the control of Spain. Rome is its own though, but with a lot of unhappy Spanish cardinals after the Pope started reforming the church.
This is more or less a direct followup to 1634: The Galileo Affair with many of the same characters. ( )
This is definitely my favorite thread of the Ring of Fire series. Fun characters, politics I have no trouble grokking, enough action but not too much - it just fires on all cylinders for me. If you liked The Galileo Affair, this will work fine for you. ( )
Might is right, right? Only if it's canon, um, cannon. How _do_ you get your point across in the 17th century? Paraphrasing a politician of the 20th century, you speak softly and carry a big stick (or cannon).
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To the memory of Jim Baen, 1943-2006.
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Don Vincente Jose-Maria Castro y Papas, Captain in His Most Catholic Majesty's army in the Two Sicilies, tried sneering at the stack of paperwork and the books and ledgers of the company he commanded.
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Rome, 1635, and Grantville's diplomatic team, headed by Sharon Nichols, are making scant headway now it has become politically inexpedient for Pope Urban VIII to talk to them any more. Sharon doesn't mind, she has a wedding to plan. Frank Stone has moved to Rome and is attempting to bring about the revolution one pizza at a time. Cardinal Borja is gathering votes to bring the Church's reformers to a halt in their tracks, on the orders of the King of Spain. Meanwhile, trouble is brewing in the streets, shadowy agitators are stirring up trouble and Spain's armies are massed across the border in the Kingdom of Naples, Cardinal Barberini wants the pamphleteers to stop slandering him and it looks like it's going to be a long, hot summer. Except that Cardinal Borja has more ambitions than his masters in Madrid know about, and has the assistance of Spain's most notorious secret agent to bring about his sinister designs.
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This is more or less a direct followup to 1634: The Galileo Affair with many of the same characters. (