The Agathopolis Company
THE AGATHOPOLIS COMPANY publishes poetry and plays.
New book (May 2009):
The Golden Caterpillar With Black Tail:
Fra. Girolamo Savonarola
a play by Jerry Nolan
In 1494 there emerged from relative obscurity in Florence the figure of Savonarola as preacher, scholar, reformer, prophet and saviour who succeeded in attracting many devoted followers and a few dedicated enemies. This play enacts key events in Florence: the invasion of Charles VIII of France; the Bonfire of the Vanities, Excommunications from Rome, the Ordeal by Fire, the Siege of San Marco, the Torture of Savonarola by the Papal Inquisitor. The play's climax describes the atrocious executions in the Piazza della Signoria as recorded by the Florentine diarist Luca Landucci who added the story of the Golden Catterpillar With Black Tail as a memorable image of the life and death of Savonarola.
Paperback: 64 pages
ISBN: 978-0955843327
Copies available at £6.00 sterling, including postage
from Jerry Nolan, 8 Antrobus Road, Chiswick, London W4 5HY. Cheques payable to J. Nolan.
Now available:
Extraordinary Views of Lansdown Tower:
William Beckford & Cyrus Redding
by Jerry Nolan
This work is a dramatization, based on their selected writings, of the highly volatile relationship between probably the most myriad-minded man of his age, William Beckford and his ambitious biographer, Cyrus Redding, who struggles to grapple with the older man's vibrant personality, hurricane of opinions and challenging behaviour during the years of Beckford's retirement in bath. A genuinely moving friendship unexpectedly develops between the two unevenly matched personalities as Redding emerges as the only one in pole position to compile the first memoir of a very exceptional character.
Paperback: 53 pages
ISBN: 978-0955843310
Copies available at £6.50 sterling, including postage
from Jerry Nolan, 8 Antrobus Road, Chiswick, London W4 5HY. Cheques payable to J. Nolan.
First publication 2008:
Cat of the Inner Cities & Other Outer Hebridean Poems
These poems and illustrations were mostly inspired by the indomitable spirit of Father Allan McDonald (1859-1905) - priest, poet & scholar on South Uist & Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides - a year ahead of the 150th anniversary of his birth.
Paperback: 74 pages
The Poems: 38 poems, pp.3-50
The Illustrations: 12 illustrations including 3 in colour, pp. 53-64
The Afterword: Mapping Father Allan McDonald's Outer Hebrides, pp.67-74
Copyright: Jerry Nolan (Poems & Afterword) & Michael Felix Gilfedder (Illustrations)
ISBN: 978-0955843303
Copies available at £6.50 sterling, including postage.
Further information from Jcmnolan[at]aol[d0t]com
Contact: Jerry Nolan, 8 Antrobus Road, Chiswick, London W4 5HY
www.jerrynolanwriter.com