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Intrigue, double-dealing and conspiracy in the Eternal City. 'A fascinating narrative of the intermingling of secular and religious power' New Statesman 'A highly enjoyable and thrilling read... Hollingsworth has peeled back the veil of secrec
A Financial Times Book of the Year Thoroughly researched. Sunday Times To be devoured. Philip Mansel 'This book is a treat for fans of well-told history.' Washington Post History is rarely kind to women of power, but few have had their reputations
The Borgias have become a byword for pride, lust, cruelty, avarice, splendour and venomous intrigue. An inspiration for many works of fiction, most famously Mario Puzo's The Godfather, they have aroused abomination and fascination in almost equal meas
'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy and brutality' Telegraph 'Likely to become the standard work of reference on the members of the family that dominated Florence' TLS
A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons. 'Exceptionally sumptuous... This vivid history brings to life the vices and virtues of the feuding ruling families of Italy.'
A fresh, revelatory, and shockingly revisionist narrative of the rise and fall of the House of Medici, by the acclaimed author of The Cardinal's Hat and The Borgias . Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the fifteenth cen
A Financial Times Book of the Year A new biography of Catherine de' Medici, the most powerful woman in sixteenth-century Europe, whose author uses neglected primary sources to recreate the life and times of a remarkable and remarkably traduced woman