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The Deadly Sisterhood: A Story of Women, Power and Intrigue in the Italian Renaissance
Leonie Frieda
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Description for The Deadly Sisterhood: A Story of Women, Power and Intrigue in the Italian Renaissance
Paperback. The women who wielded the real power behind the throne in Renaissance Italy, from a bestselling historian. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 362.
The women who wielded the real power behind the throne in Renaissance Italy, from a bestselling historian.
This book is one of drama on a grand scale, a Renaissance epic, as Christendom emerged from the shadows of the calamitous 14th century. The sweeping tale involves inspired and corrupt monarchs, the finest thinkers, the most brilliant artists and the greatest beauties in Christendom.
Here are the stories of its most remarkable women, who are all joined by birth, marriage and friendship and who ruled for a time in place of their men-folk: Lucrezia Turnabuoni (Queen Mother of Florence, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780753828441
SKU
V9780753828441
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99-50
About Leonie Frieda
Swedish by birth, but educated in Britain, France and Germany, Leonie Frieda speaks five languages and is a member of the Institute of Linguists. She is the author of a bestselling biography of Catherine de Medici, and THE DEADLY SISTERHOOD: A STORY OF WOMEN, POWER AND INTRIGUE IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE and FRANCIS I: THE MAKER OF MODERN FRANCE. She ... Read more
Reviews for The Deadly Sisterhood: A Story of Women, Power and Intrigue in the Italian Renaissance
This group of well-born, fastidiously educated women played a crucial role in the complicated politics of Renaissance Italy, where a collection of city states and competing warlords struggled to maintain their independence from the papacy at home and the French and Spanish abroad ... a torrent of poisoned daggers, ruthless politics and sexual intrigue
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