Rhinoceros for the Pope

Lawrence Norfolk is the author of intellectual best sellers as "Dictionary Lempriere" (the award is named after Somerset Maugham), "In the guise of a boar" and "the Feast of John Saturnalia". His books have been translated into 34 languages, and their total circulation reached half a million copies. All the novels of Norfolk contain a fascinating detective intrigue, dramatic story of betrayal, revenge and love, the echoes of ancient myths and original interpretation of events in world history...
So, to your attention is his second novel in the maze. Norfolk again shows a world on the brink of epochal metamorphosis: steeped in luxury and entertainment papal Rome as a magnet for adventurers and pilgrims, covert and overt emissaries of neighboring and distant powers, adventurers of all stripes. And division of spheres of influence in the New world depends on who will deliver first, Pope Leo X mythical beast Rhino, the Spaniards or Portuguese; but Pliny wrote that the natural enemy of the elephant is the Rhino, and the elephant Daddy is already...