title: The Falcon of Palermo: A Novel
author: Maria R. Bordihn
description: "The story entertains, thanks to a firm grasp of medieval power, politics, and an ability to make acute discriminations among rival or warring factions--and, not least, to a vivid characterization of Frederick as a high-energy combination of innate nobility, restless intellectual curiosity and galloping megalomania."
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  Text copyright © 2014 Anna Thayer  
  This edition copyright © 2014 Lion Hudson
  
  
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  1988.
  
  
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  All the characters in this book are fictitious and any resemblance to actual
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  ISBN 978 1 78264 077 6  
  e-ISBN 978 1 78264 