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The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici
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‘A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence’ Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 1531 – after years of brutal war and political intrigue, the bastard son of a Medici Duke and a ‘half-negro’ maidservant rides into Florence. Within a year, he rules the city as its Prince. Backed by the Pope and his future father-in-law the Holy Roman Emperor, the nineteen-year-old Alessandro faces down bloody family rivalry and the scheming hostility of Italy’s oligarchs to reassert the Medicis’ faltering grip on the turbulent city-state. Six years later, as he awaits an adulterous liaison, he will be murdered by his cousin in another man’s bed.‘Nothing in sixteenth-century history is more astonishing’ Hilary Mantel
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| Weight | 0.256 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.2 × 13 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 368 |
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| Year Published | 2017-4-20 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099586940 |
| About The Author | Catherine Fletcher is a historian of Renaissance and early modern Europe. Her first book, The Divorce of Henry VIII, brought to life the world of the papal court at the time of the Tudors. Her latest book, The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance is published in 2020. She has recently been appointed Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University. |
A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence |
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| Other text | Nothing in sixteenth century history is more astonishing to our era than the career of Alessandro de’ Medici. His story, told by an exact and fluent historian, challenges our preconceptions. Catherine Fletcher’s eye for the skewering detail makes the citizens of renaissance Florence live again: courtesans and cardinals, artists and assassins |
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