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Cargando... The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medicipor Catherine Fletcher
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. In this examination of the first Medici Duke of Florence the author is rather less concerned with the ethnicity of Alessandro than one might think (though it's just possible that he was the real-life inspiration for "Othello"). The real story here is one of intramural conflict between the various branches of the Medici clan and how, at the end of the day, Alessandro may well have been a competent prince of Florence and its possessions, but it was convenient to allow him, in the wake of his murder, to take the fall for doing the hard work of formally imposing a Medici dynasty on the city as its ruling house. That his wife Margaret of Austria appeared to think well of the man long after his death is suggestive. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Ruler of Florence for seven bloody years, 1531 to 1537, Alessandro de' Medici was arguably the first person of color to serve as a head of state in the Western world. Born out of wedlock to a dark-skinned maid and Lorenzo de' Medici, he was the last legitimate heir to the line of Lorenzo the Magnificent. When Alessandro's noble father died of syphilis, the family looked to him. Groomed for power, he carved a path through the backstabbing world of Italian politics in a time when cardinals, popes, and princes vied for wealth and advantage. By the age of nineteen, he was prince of Florence, inheritor of the legacy of the grandest dynasty of the Italian Renaissance. Alessandro faced down family rivalry and enormous resistance from Florence's oligarchs, who called him a womanizer-which he undoubtedly was--and a tyrant. Yet this real-life counterpart to Machiavelli's Prince kept his grip on power until he was assassinated at the age of 26 during a late-night tryst arranged by his scheming cousins. After his death, his brief but colorful reign was criticized by those who had murdered him in a failed attempt to restore the Florentine republic. For the first time, the true story is told in The Black Prince of Florence. Catherine Fletcher tells the riveting tale of Alessandro's unexpected rise and spectacular fall, unraveling centuries-old mysteries, exposing forgeries, and bringing to life the epic personalities of the Medicis, Borgias, and others as they waged sordid campaigns to rise to the top. Drawing on new research and first-hand sources, this biography of a most intriguing Renaissance figure combines archival scholarship with discussions of race and class that are still relevant today."--Provided by publisher. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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