Murder Of A Medici Princess

Author : Caroline Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195385837
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder of a Medici Princess written by Caroline Murphy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vast treasure trove of newly discovered and unpublished documents illuminates the brilliant life and tragic death of Isabella de Medici, one of the brightest stars in Renaissance Italy, in this fast-paced narrative that reveals the culpability of her disapproving older brother in her murder by her jealous husband.

Author : Caroline P. Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199839896
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder of a Medici Princess written by Caroline P. Murphy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-18 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 dazzling world of Renaissance Italy, the daughter of Duke Cosimo I, ruler of Florence and Tuscany. Murphy is a superb storyteller, and her fast-paced narrative captures the intrigue, the scandal, the romantic affairs, and the violence that were commonplace in the Florentine court. She brings to life an extraordinary woman, fluent in five languages, a free-spirited patron of the arts, a daredevil, a practical joker, and a passionate lover. Isabella, in fact, conducted numerous affairs, including a ten-year relationship with the cousin of her violent and possessive husband. Her permissive lifestyle, however, came to an end upon the death of her father, who was succeeded by her disapproving older brother Francesco. Considering Isabella's ways to be licentious and a disgrace upon the family, he permitted her increasingly enraged husband to murder her in a remote Medici villa. To tell this dramatic story, Murphy draws on a vast trove of newly discovered and unpublished documents, ranging from Isabella's own letters, to the loose-tongued dispatches of ambassadors to Florence, to contemporary descriptions of the opulent parties and balls, salons and hunts in which Isabella and her associates participated. Murphy resurrects the exciting atmosphere of Renaissance Florence, weaving Isabella's beloved city into her story, evoking the intellectual and artistic community that thrived during her time. Palaces and gardens in the city become places of creativity and intrigue, sites of seduction, and grounds for betrayal. Here then is a narrative of compelling and epic proportions, magnificent and alluring, decadent and ultimately tragic.

Author : Caroline P. Murphy
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571266053
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isabella de'Medici written by Caroline P. Murphy and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isabella de' Medici was the hostess of a glittering circle in Renaissance Florence. Beautiful and liberated, she not only matched the intellectual accomplishments of her male contemporaries, but sought sexual parity also, engaging in an adulterous affair with her husband's cousin. It was this affair - and her very success as First Lady of Florence - that led to her death at the hands of her husband at the age of just thirty-four. She left behind a remarkable story, and as her legacy a son who became the best of the Orsini Dukes, immortalised by Shakespeare as Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night. Caroline P. Murphy illuminates this often misunderstood figure, and in the process brings to life the home of creativity, the city of Florence itself.

Author : Stefano Dall'Aglio
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300213581
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Duke's Assassin written by Stefano Dall'Aglio and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stefano Dall’Aglio sheds new light on the notorious Florentine Lorenzino de’ Medici (also known as Lorenzaccio) and on two of the most infamous assassinations in Italian Renaissance history. In 1537 Lorenzino changed the course of history by murdering Alessandro de’ Medici, first duke of Florence, and paving the way for the accession of the new duke, Cosimo I. In 1548 Lorenzino was killed in Venice in revenge for the assassination. The events surrounding these murders, which Dall’Aglio reconstructs, involved the Medici, their loyalists, Florentine republican exiles, and some of the most powerful sovereigns of the time. The first publication in a century to examine the life of Lorenzino de’ Medici, and the first work in English, this fascinating revisionist history is based on extensive research in the historical archives of Florence and Simancas. The tale is as gripping as a detective novel, as Dall’Aglio unravels a 500-year-old mystery, revealing who was behind the bloody death of the duke’s assassin: the emperor Charles V.

Author : Edgcumbe Staley
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tragedies of the Medici written by Edgcumbe Staley and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tragedies of Medici is an account of the Medici Family during the Rennaisance period, giving great insight into life in Rennaissance Italy. The book pays special attention to the life of Lorenzo Medici.

Author : Sharon T. Strocchia
Publisher : I Tatti Studies in Italian Ren
ISBN 13 : 0674241746
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Healers written by Sharon T. Strocchia and published by I Tatti Studies in Italian Ren. This book was released on 2019 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Renaissance Italy women from all walks of life played a central role in health care and the early development of medical science. Observing that the frontlines of care are often found in the household and other spaces thought of as female, Sharon Strocchia encourages us to rethink women's place in the history of medicine.

Author : Felicity T. C. Hamer
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787693236
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parental Grief and Photographic Remembrance written by Felicity T. C. Hamer and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felicity Hamer explores how creative, and sometimes contested, incorporations of photography within online spaces demonstrate a revival and renegotiation of historic practices propelled by a desire to commemorate the death of a child.

Author : Amy Leonard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611490189
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masculinities, Childhood, Violence written by Amy Leonard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume includes essays and workshop summaries for the 2006 Attending to Early Modern Women—and Men symposium. Essays and workshop summaries are divided into four sections, "Masculinities," "Violence," "Childhood," and "Pedagogies". Taken together, they considers women's works, lives, and culture across geographical regions, primarily in England, France, Germany, Italy, the Low Countries, the Caribbean , and the Islamic world and explore the shift in scholarly understanding ofwomen's lives and works when they are placed alongside nuanced considerations of men's lives and works.

Author : Jane Fortune
Publisher : TheFlorentinePress
ISBN 13 : 8890243481
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Florence con amore. 90 ways to love the city written by Jane Fortune and published by TheFlorentinePress. This book was released on 2011 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From famous frescos and family restaurants to meditative spots that soothe the soul, To Florence ... reveals unsung treasures and fascinating cultural gems. ... intimate collection of "must-sees" is an indispensable guide ..."--Back cover

Author : Nancy Goldstone
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316409677
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rival Queens written by Nancy Goldstone and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de' Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestuous and dangerous century. Set in magnificent Renaissance France, this is the story of two remarkable women, a mother and daughter driven into opposition by a terrible betrayal that threatened to destroy the realm. Catherine de' Medici was a ruthless pragmatist and powerbroker who dominated the throne for thirty years. Her youngest daughter Marguerite, the glamorous "Queen Margot," was a passionate free spirit, the only adversary whom her mother could neither intimidate nor control. When Catherine forces the Catholic Marguerite to marry her Protestant cousin Henry of Navarre against her will, and then uses her opulent Parisian wedding as a means of luring his followers to their deaths, she creates not only savage conflict within France but also a potent rival within her own family. Rich in detail and vivid prose, Goldstone's narrative unfolds as a thrilling historical epic. Treacherous court politics, poisonings, inter-national espionage, and adultery form the background to a story that includes such celebrated figures as Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Nostradamus. The Rival Queens is a dangerous tale of love, betrayal, ambition, and the true nature of courage, the echoes of which still resonate.