The Enchantress of Florence: Difference between revisions

* [[Big Beautiful Woman]]: A prostitute in a whorehouse in Sikri, nicknamed "the Matress". People usually hire her along with [[Fat and Skinny|her counterpart]], the Skeleton, "[[Fetish Fuel|to explore the extremes]]."

* [[Blasphemous Boast]]: Possibly. The book noted that when he says "Allahu Akbar" (God is great/''akbar'') he could very well mean "Akbar is God."

* [[Cuckold]]: Everyone loves Marco Vespucci's wife, although it's unclear whether they ever bedded her. Being a nice, stupid lad that he was, Marco said such a beauty should be public property.

** [[Subverted]] by Praise-God Hawkins, which had departed so long from his beloved that he ''imagined'' daily that she had gone for another man back home.

* [[The Philosopher]]: Many characters, notably the Emperor and his trusted wise men.

* [[Porn Stache]]: It was fashionable at the time. Akbar the Great sported a particularly awesome one and was very vain about it.

* [[The Renaissance]]: Straight from the heart of it—Florence.

* [[Royal We]]: [[Played With]]. Akbar thinks of himself as the entirety of his power and uses "we", but toyed with the idea of the "I", which he finds very alien.

* [[Shout Out]]: Thee four giants are Otho, Botho, Clotho, and [[The Three Musketeers (Literature)|D'Artagnan]].

* [[Shown Their Work]]: The research Rushdie did for the historical bits.

* [[Take That]]: Rushdie doesn't have a history of good rapport with religious fundamentalists (''[[The Satanic Verses]]'' and everything). There is one such character. Not very nice things happened.

* [[Upperclass Twit]]: The royal princes are these at least half the time.

* [[Warrior Poet]]: Most notably Akbar himself.

* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: The king's private spy.