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Fletcher, Catherine

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

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

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Author: Fletcher, Catherine

Biography: historical, political & military

Published on 20 April 2017 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.


Paperback / softback | 368 pages
198 x 130 x 23 | 252g

‘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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