# The Black Prince of Florence

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- Authors: [Catherine Fletcher](https://www.bookquiver.com/catherine-fletcher)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2016-04-21

## Description

‘A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence’ Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard , Books of the Year 1531 – after years of brutal war and political intrigue, the bastard son of a Medici Duke and a ‘half-negro’ maidservant rides into Florence. Within a year, he rules the city as its Prince. Backed by the Pope and his future father-in-law the Holy Roman Emperor, the nineteen-year-old Alessandro faces down bloody family rivalry and the scheming hostility of Italy’s oligarchs to reassert the Medicis’ faltering grip on the turbulent city-state. Six years later, as he awaits an adulterous liaison, he will be murdered by his cousin in another man’s bed. ‘Nothing in sixteenth-century history is more astonishing’ Hilary Mantel

## Editions

### The Black Prince of Florence

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9958-694-4
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2017-04-20
- Language: en_GB

### The Black Prince of Florence

- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4818-208-4
- Published: 2016-04-21
- Language: en_GB