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Catherine de Medici was half French, half Italian. Orphaned in infancy, she was the sole legitimate heiress to the Medici family fortune. Married at fourteen to the future Henri II of France she was constantly humiliated by his influential mistress Diane de Poitiers. When her husband died as a result of a duelling accident Catherine became queen regent during the short reign of her eldest son. When her second son became king she was the power behind the throne. She nursed dynastic ambitions, but was continually drawn into political and religious intrigues. It had always been said that she was implicated in the notorious Saint Barthlomew¿s Day Massacre, together with the king and her third son who succeeded to the throne in 1574, but was murdered ¿ left standing with his assassin¿s dagger in one hand, and his own entrails in the other. Her political influence waned, but she survived long enough to ensure the succession of her son-in-law who had married her daughter Margaret.
Léonie Frieda has returned to original sources and re-read the thousands of letters left by Catherine. There has not been a biography in English of Catherine for many years and she believes that the time has come to show her as one of the most influential women in c16th Europe.
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Revisionist biography that shows Catherine was not the incarnation of evil, as portrayed by Dumas, but a heroine who held 16th century France together in times of Catholic/Protestant strife and preserved the monarchy.
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Swedish by birth, but educated in Britain, Léonie Frieda speaks five languages and is a member of the Institute of Linguists. Her long interest in Catherine de Medici has taken her to archives in Paris, Florence, Rome and Madrid, as well as the chateaux of the Loire. She lives in London with her daughter Elisabeth and son Jake.
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- EditoreWeidenfeld & Nicolson
- ISBN 10 0297643517
- ISBN 13 9780297643517
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine400
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Catherine De Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
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Descrizione libro hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Well-illustrated (illustratore). First American Edition. First U.S. edition from 2003. Dust jacket is good with light wear. Yellow paper boards have light wear. Binding is good. There is a name in pen on front endpaper. Pages are clean and unmarked. LO. Codice articolo 208210
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CATHERINE DE' MEDICI
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Well-illustrated (illustratore). First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good; with a Very Good dust jacket. Some foxing and toning to jacket and page edges. Thin stain to page edges, not affecting interior beyond edge of rear end paper. Minor chipping to jacket edges. Blue smudge to top page edges. No markings to text. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Codice articolo 11403
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