Catherine de Medici. A story of family revenge. Renaissance in Italy
69.99 €
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Catherine de Medici. A story of family revenge. Renaissance in Italy
69.99 €
A new book in the series "Renaissance Art" and the final part of the Medici trilogy! The final book of the famous trilogy, which became an international sensation and translated into 10 languages, is dedicated to Catherine de Medici, the great representative of the powerful dynasty of patrons of the arts and rulers of the Renaissance. The first two books of the trilogy - "The Enigma of Montefeltro" and "Foxes and Lions" - recently published for the first time in Russian, immediately became bestsellers in Russia. More than 130 high-quality illustrations of masterpieces by Michelangelo, Titian, Santi di Tito, Raphael, Giorgio Vasari and other works of the Renaissance, carefully selected with the active participation of the author - Italian scholar, professor of history and literature of the Renaissance Marcello Simonetta. Catherine de Medici was born in Florence in 1519 and became the most famous queen of France. Legends and rumors about her as a "black queen", a "religious fanatic" who blessed the terrible Bartholomew's Night do not subside. Marcello Simonetta, the author of the trilogy about the Medici family, twists the historical plot around the events of Catherine de Medici's youth: he tells the story of an eight-year-old orphan who will one day become the ruler of one of the most powerful countries in Europe. And of the revenge that from her childhood linked different branches of the Medici family with another powerful Florentine family, the Strozzi's. In the book "Catherine de Medici. A Story of Family Revenge" deals with the period 1527-1559, from the painful beginning of the decline of the Renaissance to the end of the Italian Wars and the decline of Italy. This book, which chronologically continues the two previous parts of the trilogy, The Montefeltro Enigma and Foxes and Lions, can also be read as a stand-alone work. Its characters are also famous and charismatic personalities who reveal themselves in unexpected ways in the lines of diplomatic messages that have been deciphered for the first time and are published on the pages of this book.
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- All books by the publisher
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- All books in the series Renaissance art