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Historical person
1820–1878
Victor Emmanuel II was king of Sardinia and became the first king of a united Italy in 1861. Working with Cavour, Garibaldi and other nationalist forces, he presided over territorial expansion and constitutional monarchy, though unification remained incomplete until the annexation of Rome.
In Gary Jennings’s Spangle: The Center Ring, the troupe expands its repertoire and reputation as it travels through Italy and the Habsburg lands, where circus business must adapt to different languages, laws and court expectations.
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Spangle follows Florian’s Flourishing Florilegium of Wonders from the devastated American South at the end of the Civil War to the courts, capitals and battlefields of Europe. Former Confederate colonel Zachary Edge and veteran Obie Yount join a struggling travelling circus whose performers become a surrogate family. As…
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