In 1546 the imperial court of Charles V comes to Ratisbon, and Barbara Blomberg, a proud and gifted burgher’s daughter with a beautiful voice, is brought to sing for the ageing, gout-ridden emperor. Their love affair, and the son it produces, will carry Barbara far from her father’s house into a life she never planned.
A full-length historical romance about the mother of Don John of Austria, by the Egyptologist-novelist Georg Ebers. Download the free EPUB.