The Deadly Sisterhood

Zusatztext ...it's a very welcome contribution to Renaissance studies! as well as a thorough and well-paced read. Informationen zum Autor Swedish by birth, but educated in Britain, France and Germany, Leonie Frieda speaks five languages and is a member of the Institute of Linguists. She is the author of a bestselling biography of Catherine de Medici, and THE DEADLY SISTERHOOD: A STORY OF WOMEN, POWER AND INTRIGUE IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE and FRANCIS I: THE MAKER OF MODERN FRANCE. She lives in London and has two children. http://www.leoniefrieda.com/ Klappentext The women who wielded the real power behind the throne in Renaissance Italy, from a bestselling historian. ...it's a very welcome contribution to Renaissance studies, as well as a thorough and well-paced read. -- Lesley McDowell GLASGOW SUNDAY HERALD The women who wielded the real power behind the throne in Renaissance Italy, from a bestselling historian. Zusammenfassung The women who wielded the real power behind the throne in Renaissance Italy, from a bestselling historian.

Product details

• Authors: Leonie Frieda, Frieda Leonie
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 11.07.2013
• EAN: 9780753828441
• ISBN: 978-0-7538-2844-1
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 195 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Italy, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Biography: historical, political and military, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, c 1400 to c 1499 (period of the Italian Renaissance)