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January 3, 2024

Fool In Search of Henry VIII’s Closest Man [Audiobook]

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Free Download Fool: In Search of Henry VIII’s Closest Man (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKWHKP56 | 2023 | 5 hours and 1 minute | M4B@128 kbps | 279 MB
Author: Peter K. Andersson
Narrator: Mike Cooper
In some portraits of Henry VIII there appears another figure-a gaunt and morose-looking man with a shaved head. This is William or "Will" Somer, the king’s fool, a celebrated wit who reportedly could raise Henry’s spirits and spent many hours with him. Was Somer an "artificial fool," a cunning comic who could speak freely in front of the king, or a "natural fool," someone with intellectual disabilities, like many other members of the profession? Fool is the first biography of Somer-and perhaps the first of a Renaissance fool. After his death, Somer disappeared, and historians struggled to separate myth from reality.

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