The Catholic Book Club discussion

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The two novels by Emilio Salgari, Capitan Tempesta - Il Leone di Damasco deal with the siege of Famagusta and the battle of Lepanto.

However, Salgari has monkeyed with the timing of the novels, making it different from history. The fall of Famagusta took place in August 1571, and the battle of Lepanto in October 1571. Just two months difference. In those two months, the protagonists of the books (Captain Tempesta and the Lion of Damascus) have time to fall in love, get married, have a child, their child is abducted by the evil Haradja, who takes him to the galley of her uncle, the Admiral of the Turk navy in Lepanto, and his parents recover him when the ship of the Admiral is captured in Lepanto.

Manuel wrote: "The two novels by Emilio Salgari, Capitan Tempesta - Il Leone di Damasco deal with the siege of Famagusta and the battle of Lepanto.

However, Salgari has monkeyed with the timing o..."

Indirectly the theme of the conquest of Cyprus we saw in a fragmented way, and briefly in the novel of "The Last Crusader" by Louis de Wohl the martyrial death of Marco Antonio Bragadino, and how Yussuf Nassi convinced Selim II to conquer Cyprus instead of aiding the Moorish Rebellion of Alpujarras, as Mehmet Sokolli wished. PS. Regarding Salgari I bought a novel of his about the taking of Carthage, I'll tell you how it is. My father always advises me to read "The Tigers of Mompracem", but I have prevention with suicides :-(.

Manuel wrote: "The two novels by Emilio Salgari, Capitan Tempesta - Il Leone di Damasco deal with the siege of Famagusta and the battle of Lepanto.

However, Salgari has monkeyed with the timing o..."

That's why a lot of historical novelists either do no research or intensive research. I've found characters using things that hadn't been invented, the wrong money, horses pulling carriages where there were canals, and those are just the minor faults. In a novel I'm just finishing this week, I found I had to put it in an alternate universe as the real history of this one wouldn't cooperate. It's a "never was" rather than a "could have been."

Michael wrote: "Manuel wrote: "The two novels by Emilio Salgari, Capitan Tempesta - Il Leone di Damasco deal with the siege of Famagusta and the battle of Lepanto.

However, Salgari has monkeyed wi..."

A very curious case of what Michael D. Greaney describes is a play that we have read both Professor Manuel Affonseca and. I refer to "Le soulier le satin" by Paul Claudel, which is a tribute that the playwright Paul Claudel makes to sixteenth-century Spain, and seventeenth, alternating scenes from both centuries without any relationship, but deliberately. I am a great lover of the fiction history, or alternative history of which Mr. Greaney speaks I have read "Bring me the Jubilee" by Ward Moore, and I loved it. It is interesting the novel of my friend Professor Manuel Alfonseca "Jacob ́s ladder".

Just read the battles of Malta and Szigetvar. They are very well told, very exciting!

I have finished on the last day of the month! This is my review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

It is a pity that it was the Last Day of the discussion of this book. It has been one of the Best discussions in which i have participated. I have enjoyed really much of the replies and interventions of Mr. Greaney. I wish he has good Luck in his literary projects and he knows that Catholic Book Club is his house.

This is my review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Just finished Lepanto, which was the battle I knew best before reading this book.

One more battle to go!