The Serpent And the Pearl (A Novel of the Borgias)
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—OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT UPON THE ELECTION OF A NEW POPE Carmelina Roast peacock,” Marco told me dreamily. “With a flaming beak and a gilded breast. And a sugar subtlety for a sweet afterward, molded in the shape of a bull—the Borgia bull, you understand?—dyed red . . .” “No, no, and no,” I said firmly. “Cardinal Borgia doesn’t care for elaborate meals at the best of times, and this is hardly the best of times. You’re cooking for a Conclave, not a wedding!” But Marco was full of dreams, no...t listening to me at all. Cardinal Borgia, in the insane rush of preparing for Pope Innocent’s massive funeral and the papal Conclave to follow, had suddenly found himself in need of a cook to provide his meals during the protracted voting. And having far too much caution to hire a strange cook when his own grew ill, he had asked his cousin Madonna Adriana if he could borrow her cook: Maestro Marco Santini. “Think of it!”
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