Catherine Fletcher

The Black Prince of Florence (eBook, ePUB)

The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781448182084
• Artikelnr.: 44640692

Autorenporträt

Catherine Fletcher is a historian of Renaissance and early modern Europe and the author of several previous books, including most recently The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance, which was a Book of the Year (2020) in The Times. Catherine is Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University and broadcasts regularly for the BBC.

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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