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THE BLACK PRINCE OF FLORENCE
THE SPECTACULAR LIFE AND TREACHEROUS WORLD OF ALESSANDRO DE' MEDICI |
| By: |
Catherine Fletcher |
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Paperback |
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0099586940 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780099586944 |
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| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
20 April, 2017 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
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. |
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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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UK |
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Vintage |
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