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The Medici Murders
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Author : David Hewson
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2023-05-04
The Medici Murders written by David Hewson and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-04 with Fiction categories.
Venice is a city full of secrets. For hundreds of years it has been the scene of scandal, intrigue and murderous rivalries. And it remains so today. 1548, Lorenzino de Medici, himself a murderer and a man few will miss, is assassinated by two hired killers. Today, Marmaduke Godolphin, British TV historian and a man even fewer will miss, is stabbed by a stiletto blade on the exact same spot, his body dropping into the canal. Can the story of the first murder explain the attack on Godolphin? The Carabinieri certainly think so. They recruit retired archivist Arnold Clover to unpick the mystery and to help solve the case. But the conspiracy against Godolphin runs deeper than anyone imagined.
The Duke S Assassin
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Author : Stefano Dall'Aglio
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2015-07-20
The Duke S Assassin written by Stefano Dall'Aglio and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-20 with History categories.
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.
Murder Of A Medici Princess
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Author : Caroline Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008
Murder Of A Medici Princess written by Caroline Murphy and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
The Tragedies Of The Medici
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Author : Edgcumbe Staley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1925
The Tragedies Of The Medici written by Edgcumbe Staley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1925 with categories.
April Blood
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Author : Lauro Martines
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2003-04-24
April Blood written by Lauro Martines and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-24 with History categories.
One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant--and violent--society of fifteenth-century Florence. His disturbing narrative opens up an entire culture, revealing the dark side of Renaissance man and politician Lorenzo de' Medici. On a Sunday in April 1478, assassins attacked Lorenzo and his brother as they attended Mass in the cathedral of Florence. Lorenzo scrambled to safety as Giuliano bled to death on the cathedral floor. April Blood moves outward in time and space from that murderous event, unfolding a story of tangled passions, ambition, treachery, and revenge. The conspiracy was led by one of the city's most noble clans, the Pazzi, financiers who feared and resented the Medici's swaggering new role as political bosses--but the web of intrigue spread through all of Italy. Bankers, mercenaries, the Duke of Urbino, the King of Naples, and Pope Sixtus IV entered secretly into the plot. Florence was plunged into a peninsular war, and Lorenzo was soon fighting for his own and his family's survival. The failed assassination doomed the Pazzi. Medici revenge was swift and brutal--plotters were hanged or beheaded, innocents were hacked to pieces, and bodies were put out to dangle from the windows of the government palace. All remaining members of the larger Pazzi clan were forced to change their surname, and every public sign or symbol of the family was expunged or destroyed. April Blood offers us a fresh portrait of Renaissance Florence, where dazzling artistic achievements went side by side with violence, craft, and bare-knuckle politics. At the center of the canvas is the figure of Lorenzo the Magnificent--poet, statesman, connoisseur, patron of the arts, and ruthless "boss of bosses." This extraordinarily vivid account of a turning point in the Italian Renaissance is bound to become a lasting work of history.
Magnificat
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Author : Jack Rein
language : en
Publisher: Booklocker.Com Incorporated
Release Date : 2008-06
Magnificat written by Jack Rein and has been published by Booklocker.Com Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06 with Fiction categories.
"Magnificat" tells the story of the Pazzi Conspiracy. In 1478, Florence and the Medici dazzle the world. The pope lusts after Florence for himself and resorts to murder to achieve the city. The continent plunges into war, and only a miracle saves Florence.
The Medici
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Author : George Frederick Young
language : en
Publisher: BookRix
Release Date : 2014-05-15
The Medici written by George Frederick Young and has been published by BookRix this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-15 with History categories.
The Medici: Annotated and Illustrated in Two Complete Volumes by George Frederick Young. The Secrecy, the conspirators, the Rise and Fall of the House of the Medici. In this exquisitely written book, you get the history of thirteen generations of a family who brought Western Europe out of the cultural darkness of their time, the city of Florence to the pinnacle of its glory, and the art of masters like Michelangelo and Botticelli to the world. The Medici is a must read for anyone interested in the Renaissance. It's probably not much of an exaggeration to claim that without Medici patronage of the arts there very well would not have been an Italian Renaissance. Acquire the knowledge about the history of Europe in perhaps its most important period, about the birth of Science,and about the great collections of Art possessed by Florence. Their rise, their course upon the mountain tops of power, and their decline and end-and to keep the parts always in subordination to the whole.
The Tragedies Of The Medici
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Author : Edgcumbe Staley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1924
The Tragedies Of The Medici written by Edgcumbe Staley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1924 with categories.
April Blood
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Author : Lauro Martines
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-01-31
April Blood written by Lauro Martines and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-31 with History categories.
In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family dramatically miscarried. The younger of the two brothers was killed, but Lorenzo the Magnificent, the brilliant poet and connoisseur escaped. A bloodbath followed and all of Italy was at once affected as it emerged that the Pope, the King of Naples, and the Duke of Urbino were deeply implicated in the plot, and that binding treaties required Milan and Venice to assist Florence. If the conspirators had succeeded and Lorenzo had been killed the future of the Medici family and, indeed, of the Florentine state would have been utterly transformed.
The Tragedies Of The Medici
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Author : John Edgcumbe Staley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1900
The Tragedies Of The Medici written by John Edgcumbe Staley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1900 with categories.