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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mary HollingsworthPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Apollo ISBN: 9781800244764ISBN 10: 1800244762 Pages: 480 Publication Date: 06 June 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsMary Hollingsworth exhibits her trademark blend of meticulous scholarship and narrative verve – this time incorporating some fascinating new material to reinforce her skilful re-reading of Catherine's character. Highly recommended, and highly readable. * Paul Strathern, author of The Medici * A nuanced and sympathetic portrait that does much to unpick the black legend woven by Catherine’s detractors and reveals how she used all her tenacity, resourcefulness and guile to try and bring peace to a nation torn apart by sectarian hatred and vicious rivalries. * Anne Somerset, author of The Affair of the Poisons * Praise for The Medici: This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy – and brutality - Telegraph, Book of the Year Likely to become the standard work of reference on the members of the family that dominated Florence - TLS A lucid and beautifully illustrated family history - The Times, Book of the Week A vital acquisition for anyone who studies the Renaissance and seeks the true role of the Medici in the history of Florence * Kirkus * PRAISE FOR MARY HOLLINGSWORTH: 'A head-scrambling epoch that Mary Hollingsworth, the author of books on the Medici and the Borgias, has done wonders to make comprehensible' The Times. 'Mary Hollingsworth is an entertaining guide... Brings to life not only the political dimension, but the fascinating material detail' BBC History Magazine. 'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy - and brutality' Telegraph. 'Full of treasures to be uncovered... A glittering, at times rather gory, world that is different and yet dreamily familiar to our own' BBC History Revealed. '[A] rich, full history of the politicking and personalities of the conclave' * New Statesman * Author InformationMary Hollingsworth is a scholar of the Italian Renaissance and the author of The Medici, which was widely praised on its publication by Head of Zeus in 2017, and Princes of the Renaissance, published in 2021. Her other books include The Cardinal's Hat, The Borgias: History's Most Notorious Dynasty and Patronage in Renaissance Italy: From 1400 to the Early Sixteenth Century. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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