The beautiful Indian princess Pocahontas in the famous Disney movie
Some time ago, for the news.it site, I wrote a post presentation of a book on Pocahontas, the Indian princess for centuries appreciated in the USA, but only recently become popular with us thanks to the Disney masterpiece dedicated to her.
I propose the article again below:good reading.
Gianfranco Peroncini's book on Pocahontas
You surely know Pocahontas for having admired it in the famous animated film of Disney , which had the merit of making the figure of a woman who has always been much loved in the USA appreciated in Europe, including Italy, where her image and the events of her existence stand out on many texts of homeland history.
If you want to get to know this beautiful and courageous princess who lived in the 1600s more closely, do not miss the book by Gianfranco Peroncini “ Pocahontas-The woman that fate changed ", In which the author, through an accurate and meticulous historical reconstruction, retraces the salient stages of the private and political life of the Indian heroine who, kidnapped by the English, fascinated by the world of whites, converted to Anglican Christianity and married the tobacco grower John Rolfe from which she had the son Thomas.
Pocahontas she died on March 21, 1617 at only 21 years of age due to a mysterious disease, according to some tuberculosis according to others pneumonia, shortly before leaving for Virginia, where she was born.
Peroncini's book is as exciting as a novel, despite being an essay that provides accurate and above all truthful information on a female character who is sometimes a little too immersed in a fairy tale context that has not always allowed an objective and real reading since strictly historical point of view ( Article taken from:Notizie.it).