''Le Fiamme di Zaporoze'' is an epic historical novel written in

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about the

Zaporozhian Cossacks The Zaporozhian Cossacks, Zaporozhian Cossack Army, Zaporozhian Host, (, or uk, Військо Запорізьке, translit=Viisko Zaporizke, translit-std=ungegn, label=none) or simply Zaporozhians ( uk, Запорожці, translit=Zaporoz ...

at the time of Hetman

Ivan Mazepa Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa (also spelled Mazeppa; uk, Іван Степанович Мазепа, pl, Jan Mazepa Kołodyński; ) was a Ukrainian military, political, and civic leader who served as the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host in 1687–1708. ...

and Czar Peter the Great during the

Great Northern War The Great Northern War (1700–1721) was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. The initial leaders of the anti-Swed ...

, by Mario Dimitrio Donadio and published in

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by Giraldi Editore in 2008.

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20110922200340/http://www.mfa.gov.ua/mfa/ua/publication/content/25622.htm

References

* www.giraldieditore.it/Fiamme di Zaporoze * www.mfa.gov.ua/Fiamme di Zaporoze (Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine) * www.radiosvoboda.org/Історія козацтва в романі італійця Italian historical novels 2008 Italian novels Great Northern War Cultural depictions of Peter the Great Novels set in the 18th century {{2000s-hist-novel-stub