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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The introduction and the 'Apology' itself are quite interesting; but I found the translation of the account of the murder of Lorenzino quite irritating. The translator says in his introduction: "Taking my cue from the vernacular style of his report, I have not scrupled to foist on him a charicaturial version of the language of a modern-day hitman, an archetypal dodgy geezer". Well, that anachronism really begins to grate. It's as though a London cabbie is recounting the tale, and it struck me as very artificial. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Famed for having killed his cousin Alessandro, the Duke of Florence, in 1537, but also for writing accomplished literary works, including a comedy and several poems, Lorenzino de' Medici remains one of the most enigmatic figures of Italian literature. In his masterpiece, Apology for a Murder, he reveals the inner motives behind his act, portraying himself as a hero to be numbered alongside the great tyrannicides of ancient Rome and Greece. Lorenzino himself, in 1548, was murdered by two soldiers hired either by the emperor Charles V or by Cosimo, Alessandro's successor as Duke, and this volume includes the dramatic account of his killing by Francesco Bibboni, one of the assassins, as well as a selection of Lorenzino's poems, giving a fully rounded image of the antihero of Alfred de Musset's Lorenzaccio. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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