'Wonderfully readable...has the ingredients of a Mafia thriller' Daily Telegraph
In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family dramatically miscarried.
In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family dramatically miscarried. The younger of the two brothers was killed, but Lorenzo the Magnificent, the brilliant poet and connoisseur escaped. A bloodbath followed and all of Italy was at once affected as it emerged that the Pope, the King of Naples, and the Duke of Urbino were deeply implicated in the plot, and that binding treaties required Milan and Venice to assist Florence.
If the conspirators had succeeded and Lorenzo had been killed the future of the Medici family and, indeed, of the Florentine state would have been utterly transformed.
A spine-chilling political drama of conspiracy, murder and bloody revenge * The Times *
A riveting tale in which we can recognise analogies with our own world * Financial Times *
Sheds light on the whole apparatus of political powering Renaissance Florence * Week *
Captivating * Times Literary Supplement *
Elegant and incisive...a masterful reconstruction * Sunday Times *
ISBN: 9780712667876
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 19mm
Weight: 223g
320 pages