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April Blood, Florence and the Plot Against the Medici

April Blood, Florence and the Plot Against the Medici

by Lauro Martines

  • HISTORY
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 302 PAGES

An absorbing chronicle of corruption and murder in Renaissance Florence, brimming with details on double-dealings, greed and backstabbing among Italy's elite. Martines, a scholar of the Italian Renaissance, chronicles in juicy, historically accurate detail the failed attempt to assassinate Lorenzo de'Medici and his brother in April 1478 along with the bloody, prolonged revenge of the family.  (ITL502, $19.99)


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