Murder of a Medici Princess
by Caroline P. Murphy
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Author: Caroline P. MurphyEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-04-18
ISBN: 0195314395
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Book Review: "Murder of a Medici princess" ...and then some!
Summary: 5 Stars
Caroline Murphy's new book is another "must have" for lovers of remarkable lesser-known royal stories. One is taken into the extraordinarily "ahead-of-her-time" life of Isabella de Medici, a Renaissance princess and daughter of the first Grand Duke of Tuscany. A thoroughly gifted, cultured and independent individual with an interesting personality that still resonates after 500 years, Isabella was unique among female royal women of the time in her ability to live her life on her own terms, even as a married woman, which truly defied all convention. From the title, obviously things do not go well in the end, and with recent tomb excavations mentioned in passing at the end, the full extent of murderousness in this generation of the Medici is only nowadays fully coming to light. If you think your family is dysfunctional, you will feel as though you grew up in the very bosom of normality after learning what eventually happened within this once-upon-a-time "big happy family."
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