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Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France

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“A beautifully written portrait of a ruthless, subtle and fearless woman fighting for survival and power in a world of gangsterish brutality, routine assassination and religious mania. . . . Frieda has brought a largely forgotten heroine-villainess and a whole sumptuously vicious era back to life. . . . This is The Godfather meets Elizabeth.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar Poisoner, besotted mother, despot, necromancer, engineer of a massacre: the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this critically hailed biography, Leonie Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen of France to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and personal odds. Based on comprehensive research including thousands of Catherine’s own letters, Frieda unfurls Catherine’s story from her troubled childhood in Florence to her tumultuous marriage to Henry II of France; her transformation of French culture to her reign as a queen who would use brutality to ensure her children’s royal birthright. Brilliantly executed, this enthralling biography goes beyond myth to paint a very human portrait of this remarkable figure.

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        Catherine de Medici : Renaissance queen of France (Book). Book Cover. Average Rating. Author. Frieda, Leonie. Published. New York : Fourth Estate, c2003.
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        The research is rock solid and the analysis logical. The author lays out a story of a family enmeshed in turbulent times. The politics of France 
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        Catherine de Medici was half French, half Italian. Leonie Frieda has written a tremendous biography of a much maligned Renaissance queen. Catherine De Audible.com Release Date: March 06, 2008Publisher: Orion Publishing Group Limited Rating: 4.5 · ‎252 reviews
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