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The duke's assassin : exile and death of Lorenzino de' Medici / Stefano Dall'Aglio ; translated by Donald Weinstein.
LIBRA DG738.14.M4 D3513 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dall'Aglio, Stefano, 1970-
- Standardized Title:
- Assassino del duca. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Medici, Lorenzino de', 1514-1548--Death.
- Medici, Lorenzino de'.
- Medici, Lorenzino de', 1514-1548.
- Nobility--Italy--Florence--Biography.
- Nobility.
- Death.
- Italy--Florence.
- Florence (Italy)--History--1421-1737.
- Florence (Italy).
- Medici, House of.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- In 1548, the notorious Lorenzino de' Medici was killed in Venice in revenge for murdering his cousin the Duke of Florence in 1537. The book reconstructs the events surrounding the Medici, the factions, the loyalists and republican exiles, and reveals that behind the vengeance was Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, the victim's ally and father-in-law.-- From jacket and page 179.
- Contents:
- Part I. The eleven year exile
- Death in Florence
- After the crime
- Mirandola and the apologia
- In the shadow of the crescent
- Between Lyons, Paris and Saintes
- Among the plots of the exiles
- Life in Venice
- Between pope and emperor
- Twilight
- Part II. Anatomy of a murder
- License to kill
- Death plots
- The turncoat killer
- The presumed culprit
- A failed trap
- Death in Venice
- Two men in flight
- The emperor's revenge
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-288) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300189780
- 0300189788
- OCLC:
- 891185746
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