The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici

ISBN-13: 9780099586944 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 368 str.

Catherine Fletcher

Opis

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.

Recenzje

A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence Simon Sebag Montefiore Evening Standard, Books of the Year

O autorze

Catherine Fletcher is a historian of Renaissance and early modern Europe and the author of three 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.