Because of this, the Italian edition of the novel uses the name Tigane instead. Kay says that the province of Tigana, and thus the book, was inadvertently named after the football player Jean Tigana. The two sorcerers conquered simultaneously but independently the peninsula, and have divided it in an uneasy balance of power. This internal conflict facilitates the conquest of the region by two powerful sorcerers: Brandin, the King of Ygrath, and Alberico, an independent warlord from the empire of Barbadior. With great subtlety, Kay conveys the fact that all this takes place in the Southern Hemisphere of the unnamed world. The provinces are: Asoli, Astibar, Certando, Chiara, Corte, Ferraut, Senzio, Tigana, and Tregea. Īction is centered on the Peninsula of the Palm which shares a common culture and language, but, like medieval Italy, is not a unified nation, comprising instead nine provinces with a long history of internecine struggle. Kay notes that some of his readers tried to connect Tigana with A Song for Arbonne by speculating the stories take place on the same fictional world Kay explained that he only repeated the same idea rather than attempting to expand his canon. The world where Tigana takes place is a planet orbited by two moons. The novel is set in a region called the Peninsula of the Palm, which somewhat resembles Renaissance Italy as well as the Peloponnese in shape.

Tigana is a 1990 fantasy novel by Canadian writer Guy Gavriel Kay.

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