The Sword Decides

Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Giovanni Paolo Panini, Francesco Guardi and Canaletto. Joanna of Naples in the fourteenth century - a queen accused of murdering her husband, and the sword that settles what the courts cannot. Bowen took a real trial and a real papal judgement and left the verdict where history left it. This edition is bound with 57 plates of painting, among them works by Benozzo Gozzoli, Canaletto and Anton Raphael Mengs, ranging from 1450 to 1912.