Italian Greens from Italian Queens: Difference between revisions

''John of Tenczyn'' was, throughout most of the 19th century, the best selling historical novel in Poland. It was only in the 1880s when it was supplanted by Henryk Sienkiewicz's trilogy. It's no surprise, then, that the association which Niemcewicz established between Queen Bona and Italian veggies soon became treated as an obvious and unquestioned truth.