Екатерина Медичи. История семейной мести. Ренессанс в Италии

Marcello Simonetta traces the youth of Catherine de’ Medici. He tells of her family’s feuds. She starts life as an orphan, aged eight. She will go on to become France’s queen. Revenge links branches of the Medici family with the Strozzi family of Florence. The book spans 1527–1559. It covers the end of the Italian Wars and Italy’s decline.

This history is for readers drawn to Catherine and Renaissance Italy. Simonetta uses letters sent by envoys. Some hold coded messages. These appear here in print, decoded for the first time. They show less well-known sides of the people he writes about.

This book ends his three-part work on the Medici. Readers can read it on its own, too. This paperback forms part of a series on Renaissance art. It has over 130 pictures. The author helped choose them. They show art by Michelangelo, Titian, and Raphael. Works by other Renaissance artists appear, too.