The Black Prince of Florence

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<p><b>A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence Simon Sebag Montefiore,<i>Evening Standard</i>, Books of the Year</b> <b></b> 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 Italys 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 mans bed.</p><p><b>Nothing in sixteenth-century history is more astonishing Hilary Mantel</b></p>

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Catherine Fletcher is a historian of Renaissance and early modern Europe. Her first book,<i>The Divorce of Henry VIII</i>, brought to life the world of the Papal court at the time of the Tudors. Subsequently, Catherine worked with the set team on the BBCs adaptation of<i>Wolf Hall</i>, advising the production on the historical detail of religious ceremony, dress and furnishings. She broadcasts frequently for BBC Radio 4 on Italian Renaissance history and is currently a BBC New Generation Thinker. Catherine now holds the position of Associate Professor in History and Heritage at Swansea University, has previously held fellowships at the British School at Rome and the European University Institute, and has taught at Royal Holloway, Durham and Sheffield universities.

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