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April blood : Florence and the plot against the Medici / / Lauro Martines



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Autore: Martines Lauro Visualizza persona
Titolo: April blood : Florence and the plot against the Medici / / Lauro Martines Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 302 pages) : illustrations, maps
Disciplina: 945/.5105
Soggetto topico: Statesmen - Italy - Florence
Nobility - Italy - Florence
Soggetto geografico: Florence (Italy) History 1421-1737
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-292) and index.
Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; GENEALOGIES; PERSONAGGl; Prologue; 1 Conspiracy; 2 Social Climbers; 3 Profile: Manetti; 4 The Pazzi Family; 5 Profile: Soderini; 6 Enter Lorenzo; 7 April Blood; 8 Assaulting the Body: 'Cannibalism'; 9 A Soldier Confesses; 10 Raging: Pope and Citizen; 11 The Pazzi Cursed; 12 Profile: Rinuccini; 13 Lorenzo: Lord and Citizen; 14 The Bottom Line; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Sommario/riassunto: One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant--and violent--society of fifteenth-century Florence. His disturbing narrative opens up an entire culture, revealing the dark side of Renaissance man and politician Lorenzo de' Medici. On a Sunday in April 1478, assassins attacked Lorenzo and his brother as they attended Mass in the cathedral of Florence. Lorenzo scrambled to safety as Giuliano bled to death on the cathedral floor. April Blood moves outward in time and space from that murderous event, unfolding a story of tangled passions, ambition, treac
Titolo autorizzato: April blood  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-83772-1
0-19-534843-5
1-4294-3878-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910820912303321
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