Niccolòs Aufstieg – Dorothy Dunnett Must-Have

It is 1459, the time of the early Renaissance, of trade and war and banking, of the fall of Constantinople and the Wars of the Roses. In Bruges are the permanent trading colonies and the small community has become an international centre for money, gossip and spies. It is a time when a young man with a head on his shoulders can slip through the fingers of those who would use and abuse him to win riches, however humble his birth. Young Niccolo is prepared to do just this.