Isabella De'medici: The Glorious Life And Tragic End Of A Renaissance Princess

Isabella de'Medici: The Glorious Life and Tragic End of a Renaissance Princess, by Caroline P. Murphy, tells the magnificent, alluring and ultimately tragic life of Isabella, the most brilliant woman of the Medici.

Isabella de' Medici was the hostess of a glittering circle in Renaissance Florence. Beautiful and liberated, she not only matched the intellectual accomplishments of her male contemporaries, but sought sexual parity also, engaging in an adulterous affair with her husband's cousin. It was this affair - and her very success as First Lady of Florence - that led to her death at the hands of her husband at the age of just thirty-four. She left behind a remarkable story, and as her legacy a son who became the best of the Orsini Dukes, immortalised by Shakespeare as Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night. Caroline P. Murphy illuminates this often misunderstood figure, and in the process brings to life the home of creativity, the city of Florence itself.

SPECIFICATIONS:

Author:Caroline P. Murphy - Кэролайн П. Мерфи

Publisher:Faber and Faber

Language:English

Publication Date:2009

Number of pages:432 pst

Format:Paperback

Width:126 mm / 5'

Height:196 mm / 7,7'

Weight:335 g

ISBN:9780571230310