# The Pope's Rhinoceros

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- Authors: [Lawrence Norfolk](https://www.bookquiver.com/lawrence-norfolk)
- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4810-585-4
- Published: 2014-04-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In February 1516, a Portugese ship sank with the loss of all hands a mile off the coast of Italy. The Nostra Senora da Adjuda had sailed 14000 miles from the Indian kingdom Gujarat: her mission, to deliver a rhinoceros to the Pope. The Pope's Rhinoceros tells the stories which culminate in this bizarre incident. Ranging from the Baltic Sea to a flyblown colony in India, from a tribe hidden in the African rain forest to atrocities committed in an obscure town in Tuscany, Norfolk's brilliant novel holds up the true history of the rhinoceros as a mirror to the fantasies and obsessions of the Renaissance.