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Jem Sultan - The Adventures of a Captive Turkish Prince in Renaissance Europe (Paperback, New ed)
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Jem Sultan - The Adventures of a Captive Turkish Prince in Renaissance Europe (Paperback, New ed)
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A remarkable tale of empire and exile, restoring to vivid life one
of the most extraordinary and colourful figures of medieval
history. Jem Sultan, born in 1459, was one of the wonders of his
age. A Turkish prince held captive in Europe at a time when the
Ottoman Empire was at its peak, he was renowned throughout the
continent as a romantic, mysterious figure. Today he is almost
forgotten in the West, but in Turkey he is still a heroic figure, a
gallant poet-prince who never grows old, his tomb a place of
pilgrimage. Jem Sultan was a son of Sultan Mehmet II, known as the
Conqueror after his capture of Constantinople in 1453. When Mehmet
died in 1481 Jem and his brother Beyazet fought a year-long war for
the succession. Jem lost, and fled to Rhodes. He was held for seven
years in various castles in France, then imprisoned in the Vatican.
He died in 1495, probably poisoned by the infamous Borgia Pope,
Alexander VI. His body was finally returned to Turkey in 1499. John
Freely, who has had access to original documents in English,
Turkish, French and Italian, tells the remarkable story of Jem
Sultan from his childhood and youth in the palaces of the Ottoman
Empire through his war with his brother and his long years of exile
in Europe.
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