![]() ![]() The stranger begins to tell Akbar the tale, going back to the boyhood of three friends in Florence, Il Machia, Ago Vespucci and Nino Argalia, the last of whom became an adventurer in the East. The tale of adventure begins in Fatehpur Sikri, the capital of Mughal emperor Akbar the Great, when a stranger arrives, having stowed away on a pirate ship captained by the Scottish Lord Hauksbank, and sets the Mughal court talking and looking back into its past. The story moves between continents, the court of Akbar to Renaissance Florence mixing history, fantasy and fable. The central theme of The Enchantress of Florence is the visit of a European to the Mughal emperor Akbar's court and his claim that he is a long lost relative of Akbar, born of an exiled Indian princess and an Italian from Florence. The novel was published on 11 April 2008 by Jonathan Cape London, and in the United States by Random House. According to Rushdie this is his "most researched book" which required "years and years of reading". The Enchantress of Florence is the ninth novel by Salman Rushdie, published in 2008. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights ![]()
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