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With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she delivered to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grandedame of the historic book, provides The Home of Niccolò series. The full time may be the 15th-century, when intrepid retailers turned the brand new knighthood of Europe. Included in this, none is bigger or even more crafty than Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, the great-natured dyer's apprentice who swashbuckles and strategies his method to the helm of the mercantile empire.      The yr is 1471. Inside the show of statecraft, where in actuality the elephants of Burgundy, Venice, England, and Cyprus stalk and snarl, Nicholas wields a respected mix.