"Gian Carlo" was originally published by Valkyrie Press in 1975. A historian tells the fictional story of a Siamese cat whom he named Gian Carlo after a certain saintly Italian youth, long since deceased. Gian Carlo the cat was a creature with a bigger-than-life personality, flamboyant and spectacular, elite and swash-buckling in every way. His friendship with his master's daughter and with the Machiavellian crow, Prince Rupert, give rise to some of the most moving episodes in all cat literature. Written with superb technique and craftsmanship, this is a book no reader could possibly put down. The book was illustrated by one of our fine American artists, Robert Hodgell.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The recipient of numerous grants and honors throughout his distinguished, scholarly career, Dr. Brundage also had published well-known papers on Ancient Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Iran, as well as on historiography and United States history. During and after World War II, he served with distinction in Latin-American diplomatic affairs in the Department of State. A mountain at the base of Palmer Peninsula in Antarctica is named after him. Dr. Brundage was a devotee of Siamese cats, beginning with the first one he and his family owned (or were owned by!) - Liberty Bell, adopted in Yorktown on July 4th. Dr. Brundage was a professor of history at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, since 1961. He died in 1993.
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Burr Cartwright Brundage was the published author of poetry books, scholarly studies, histories of the Incas and Aztecs, student of archaeology, with reading knowledge of many languages, including Egyptian Hieroglyphs of the Old and Middle Kingdom, Demotic, Hebrew, Quechua, and Nahuatl. He earned his Doctorate at the University of Chicago in 1939 in the field of Egyptology.