This is the first book by Dumas that I have read, and I have to assume his better-known ones are also better written. My main problem is with the characters, particularly Queen Joan, his protagonist. It seemed that he had intended to cast her as an adulteress and the murderess of her husband, and he

"Look here, friends, why these bitter recriminations—this ill— mannered raving? We have no excuses to make, and we are all equally guilty. I am the youngest of all, and not the ugliest, by your leave, ladies, but if I am condemned, at least I will die cheerfully. For I have never denied myself any p

Era notte nella sua anima, ma ad ogni istante le tenebre interiori venivano squarciate da lampi di folgore e sul cupo fondale della sua disperazione si stagliavano figure dorate che lo sorvolavano lanciandogli sorrisi sarcastici.

"Giovanna di Napoli" fa parte della raccolta "Delitti celebri", in cui

Splendida ricostruzione storica di una corte ricca di segreti, bugie, tradimenti e sotterfugi. Uno scenario accattivante, ricco di colpi di scena, di voltafaccia ed inganni.

I first heard of Joan of Naples – under her “real” name, Giovanna – through Marjorie Bowen’s historical novel, “The Sword Decides!” It captured my imagination, so – having also enjoyed two other volumes in Alexandre Dumas’s Celebrated Crimes series – I expected great things from this.

Well, a few par