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Language: en
Pages: 420
Pages: 420
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 421
Pages: 421
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-04-18 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
In Murder of a Medici Princess, Caroline Murphy illuminates the brilliant life and tragic death of Isabella de Medici, one of the brightest stars in the dazzlin
Language: en
Pages: 432
Pages: 432
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher:
Isabella de' Medici's affair with her husband's cousin - and her very success as First Lady of Florence - led to her death at the hands of her husband at the ag
Language: en
Pages: 492
Pages: 492
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Leaving her native Florence to marry Henry II of France, Catherine de Medici embarks on an unanticipated destiny of religious warfare, thwarted leadership and p
Language: en
Pages: 457
Pages: 457
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press
The ducal court of Cosimo I de' Medici in sixteenth-century Florence was one of absolutist, rule-bound order. Portraiture especially served the dynastic pretens