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 / Creator:	Fletcher, Catherine, 1975- author.
Imprint:	London The Bodley Head, 2016. ©2016
Description:	xxiii, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Medici, Alessandro de', -- 1510-1537. Medici, Alessandro de', -- 1510-1537. Princes -- Italy -- Florence -- Biography. Kings and rulers. Princes. Florence (Italy) -- Kings and rulers -- Biography. Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737. Italy -- Florence. Biography. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10738423

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ISBN:	9781847922694 1847922694
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	The year is 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. From dazzling palaces and Tuscan villas to the treacherous backstreets of Florence and the corridors of papal power, the story of Alessandro's spectacular rise, magnificent reign and violent demise takes us deep beneath the surface of power in Renaissance Italy - a glamorous but deadly realm of spies, betrayal and vendetta, illicit sex and fabulous displays of wealth, where the colour of one's skin meant little but the strength of one's allegiances meant everything.

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