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In 1491, as Machiavelli advised popes and princes and Leonardo da Vinci astonished the art world, a young man boarded a ship in Portugal bound for Ireland. He would be greeted upon arrival as the rightful heir to the throne of England. The trouble was, England already had a king.âŚ
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I love gorgeous sentences alongside a good mystery, and Wroe expertly crafts both. A decade after the Princes in the Tower were presumed murdered, a charismatic young man appeared, claiming to be the younger of the two princesâRichard, Duke of York. His enemies, though, said he was a boatmanâs son named Perkin Warbeck. So who was he really? Wroeâs meditation on appearance and identity has even more resonance in the Instagram-era than it did when it was first published. What does it mean to âlook the partâ? And what matters mostâwho we think we are, or who others think weâŚ
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