Minor characters in this work include the lustful Scottish Captain Hausbank and a pair of prostitutes who administer magical 
Minor characters in this work include the lustful Scottish Captain Hausbank and a pair of prostitutes who administer magical vials of perfume and are nicknamed the Skeleton and the Mattress.  Much of the center portion of the book concerns the adventures of a tulip tattooed mercenary called the Turk whose retinue includes a quartet of Swiss giants, and who long ago left his childhood friends Agostino and Nicolo behind.  It contains two epigraphs, one by Mirza Ghalib and another by Petrarch, and opens with a cart approaching the glowing lake of Sikri and a blonde man's demands to see the emperor, so that he might tell him how they are both descended from the title figure, a woman alternatively known as Lady Black Eyes and Qara Koz.  For 10 points, identify this 2008 work that juxtaposes events set at Akbar's Mughal court with Machiavelli's Renaissance home, a novel by Salman Rushdie.
Minor characters in this work include the lustful Scottish Captain Hausbank and a pair of prostitutes who administer magical vials of perfume and are nicknamed the Skeleton and the Mattress.  
The Enchantress of Florence