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Original Title:	The Spring of the Ram
ISBN:	0375704787 (ISBN13: 9780375704789)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The House of Niccolò #2

The Spring of the Ram (The House of Niccolò #2)

Dorothy Dunnett

Paperback | Pages: 496 pages

Rating: 4.4 | 2453 Users | 107 Reviews

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Title	:	The Spring of the Ram (The House of Niccolò #2)
Author	:	Dorothy Dunnett
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 496 pages
Published	:	March 30th 1999 by Vintage (first published October 12th 1987)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Italy

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With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolò series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among them, none is bolder or more cunning than Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, the good-natured dyer's apprentice who schemes and swashbuckles his way to the helm of a mercantile empire. In 1461, Nicholas is in Florence. Backed by none other than Cosimo de' Medici, he will sail the Black Sea to Trebizond, last outpost of Byzantium, and the last jewel missing from the crown of the Ottoman Empire. But trouble lies ahead. Nicholas's stepdaughter -- at the tender age of thirteen -- has eloped with his rival in trade: a Machiavellian Genoese who races ahead of Nicholas, sowing disaster at every port. And time is of the essence: Trebizond may fall to the Turks at any moment. Crackling with wit, breathtakingly paced, The Spring of the Ram is a pyrotechnic blend of scholarship and narrative shimmering with the scents, sounds, colors, and combustible emotions of the 15th century.

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This one's definitely picking up steam from the first one, which suffered a little from Dunnett's tendency to throw you in at the deep end and expect you to swim. With more familiarity with the major players, this book read much easier. It's fascinating to me how some of the characters / scenes I initially thought were just pale retreads of ones from her other series, but the more fleshed out they become the more I see that they are entirely different people. Niccolo and Lymond are both

As with most of Dunnett's books, the more involved details of the plot flew right over my head--I can tell you that there were political machinations involving the Emperor of Trebizond and the Turkish Sultan, but that's about it. Oh, and some rather amusing and engaging scenes involving the plague, bath houses, intimations of sodomy and camels (not all at once). I think Dunnett is also somehow managing to tell this series much more from the point of view of her protagonist, while at the same

The second in the Niccolo series and just as compelling as the Lymond series in it's own right. I love the way the author allows the reader to become so invested in the characters. All of the characters from the central ones right down to the peripheral characters, all make their presence felt.There is far more to the young Claes, dye apprentice turned world worldy adventurer then was first apparent and I'm enjoying seeing more and more of the machinations of Claes being revealed. A word of

Masterfully crafted! Everything I said about the first novel applies equally if not more so to this second novel in the series. In part because I creep my way through these so slowly and in part because of the way they're written, the books do feel like one large story. It's very hard to review them independently. For those who are a fan of the Lymond Chronicles and feared giving your heart to another Dunnett protagonist, worry not: Nicholas is a precursor to Lymond but is wildly different, and

Seriously give this book to the showrunners of Game of Thrones--I've found their next series.

This is the second volume of Dunnett's second great series built around the enigmatic Nicholas, once a dyer's apprentice in Bruges, and now the leader of a trading company setting up business in Trebizond, the last outpost of the Byzantine empire, on behalf of the Medici.After the domestic beginning of the series (Niccolo Rising) this allows Nicholas, still only 20, to spread his wings and try his skills in a wider world. But he is as dangerous as the sphere which he is entering, and his

Nicholas, a dye merchant's apprentice abruptly turned master of his company, feels his way around the schemes of rival merchants, princes, and emperors. He is brilliant but young, not entirely trusted by his advisors (for good reason), and ringed about by uncertain allies and merciless enemies. His main rival in this volume is the insouciantly ruthless sea prince Pagano Doria, who manages to find a particularly diabolical way to undermine Nicholas's fragile authority. In the background, Dunnett