Barbara Blomberg

Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Albrecht Dürer, Hans Wertinger and Lucas Cranach the Elder. Regensburg, 1546: a burgher's daughter with a great voice sings before the Emperor Charles V, and the son she bears him will grow up to be Don John of Austria and win Lepanto — but the novel stays with her, and with what the Empire does to a woman it has finished using. Ebers was an Egy...