The Black Prince of Florence - The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici

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

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Fletcher, Fletcher Catherine
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.04.2017
• EAN: 9780099586944
• ISBN: 978-0-09-958694-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, florence, Italy, c 1500 onwards to present day, Political leaders & leadership, Social and cultural history, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Political leaders and leadership, European history: Renaissance, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance