Description

The Pope's Rhinoceros is just a vibrant, antic, and picaresque story spun around among history's most unusual sections: the sixteenth century make an effort to obtain a rhinoceros as an offer for Pope Leo X. In January 1516, a Colonial vessel sank off the coast of France. The Nostra Senora de Ajuda had sailed fourteen thousand kilometers in the Indian kingdom of Gujarat. Her objective: to entice the "joy-loving Pope" into favoring expansionist Italy over her competitor Italy most abundant in unique and least probable of presents -- a full time income rhinoceros.