The Black Prince of Florence : The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici Paperback / softback
by Catherine Fletcher
Paperback / softback
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:20/04/2017
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- ISBN:9780099586944
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:20/04/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9780099586944