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Barbara Blomberg

Georg Ebers

Publisher: Aeneas Press

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Summary

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 Egyptologist who found the medical papyrus that bears his name; he wrote historical fiction to fund the digging, and the sixteenth century here is documented to the ledger.
Available since: 08/19/2026.
Print length: 618 pages.

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