Captain from Castile | Related Titles
Prince of Foxes
Cut from the same cloth as Pedro de Vargas in Captain from Castile, Andrea Orsini in Prince of Foxes (1947) is both more interesting and less believable than his Spanish cousin. Whereas Pedro is not much different at the end of his story than he is at the beginning — the simple, extroverted hero — Andrea is a man of more complexity and dimension. An opportunist, ruthless and cynical in his attitudes, he is reawakened to probity and decency. He changes in the course of his story. At the same time, Shellabarger has made Andrea so much the...
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