The Confessions Of Catherine De Medici
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Author | : C. W. Gortner |
Publisher | : Random House Digital, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0345501861 |
Leaving her native Florence to marry Henry II of France, Catherine de Medici embarks on an unanticipated destiny of religious warfare, thwarted leadership and psychologically charged royal machinations. By the author of The Last Queen.
Author | : C W Gortner |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 2011-01-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1848947178 |
I was ten years old when I discovered I might be a witch... The sixteenth century: the era of queens. Catherine de Medici is an impressionable, mystical girl. She is orphaned and taken hostage by her enemies, and manipulated by her advisors; yet she is to become France's most powerful regent. History will make her name synonymous with evil, but she is all too human. Humiliated at the hands of her husband and his mistress, and haunted by her gift of second sight, she must rise above her troubles and fight to save her dynasty and adopted country from the brutal Wars of Religion... In THE CONFESSIONS OF CATHERINE DE MEDICI, C W Gortner vividly depicts the turbulent life of one of history's most notorious yet misunderstood women.
Author | : C. W. Gortner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biographical fiction, French |
ISBN | : 9780340962961 |
I was ten years old when I discovered I might be a witch...The sixteenth century: the era of queens. Catherine de Medici is an impressionable, mystical girl. She is orphaned and taken hostage by her enemies, and manipulated by her advisors; yet she is to become France's most powerful regent.
Author | : C. W. Gortner |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2011-05-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 034550187X |
The truth is, not one of us is innocent. We all have sins to confess. So reveals Catherine de Medici, the last legitimate descendant of her family’s illustrious line. Expelled from her native Florence, Catherine is betrothed to Henri, son of François I of France. In an unfamiliar realm, Catherine strives to create a role for herself through her patronage of the famous clairvoyant Nostradamus and her own innate gift as a seer. But in her fortieth year, Catherine is widowed, left alone with six young children in a kingdom torn apart by the ambitions of a treacherous nobility. Relying on her tenacity, wit, and uncanny gift for compromise, Catherine seizes power, intent on securing the throne for her sons, unaware that if she is to save France, she may have to sacrifice her ideals, her reputation, and the secret of her embattled heart.
Author | : Jean Plaidy |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2012-07-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 145168620X |
A fictional account of Catherine de' Medici, the fourteen-year-old reluctant Italian bride to the second son of the King of France, Henry, during the sixteenth-century.
Author | : Leonie Frieda |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2022-01-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0063235919 |
The inspiration for the STARZ original series, The Serpent Queen, premiering September 11. “A beautifully written portrait of a ruthless, subtle and fearless woman fighting for survival and power in a world of gangsterish brutality, routine assassination and religious mania. . . . Frieda has brought a largely forgotten heroine-villainess and a whole sumptuously vicious era back to life. . . . This is The Godfather meets Elizabeth.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar Poisoner, besotted mother, despot, necromancer, engineer of a massacre: the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this critically hailed biography, Leonie Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen of France to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and personal odds. Based on comprehensive research including thousands of Catherine’s own letters, Frieda unfurls Catherine’s story from her troubled childhood in Florence to her tumultuous marriage to Henry II of France; her transformation of French culture to her reign as a queen who would use brutality to ensure her children’s royal birthright. Brilliantly executed, this enthralling biography goes beyond myth to paint a very human portrait of this remarkable figure.
Author | : Susan Broomhall |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2021-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004461817 |
An innovative analysis of the representational strategies that constructed Catherine de’ Medici and sought to explain her behaviour and motivations.
Author | : Carolyn Meyer |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2009-04-27 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780152066208 |
While her tyrannical family is out of favor in Italy, young Catherine de Medici is raised in convents, then in 1533, when she is fourteen, her uncle, Pope Clement VII, arranges for her marriage to prince Henri of France, who is destined to become king.
Author | : Caroline Murphy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0195385837 |
Murphy illuminates the brilliant life and tragic death of Isabella de Medici, one of the brightest stars in the dazzling world of Renaissance Italy. The author's fast-paced narrative captures the intrigue, scandal, romantic affairs, and the violence that were commonplace in the Florentine court.
Author | : C. W. Gortner |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Griffin |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2011-02-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429993189 |
The era of the Tudors was one of danger, intrigue, conspiracy, and, above all, spies. Summer 1553: A time of danger and deceit. Brendan Prescott, an orphan, is reared in the household of the powerful Dudley family. Brought to court, Prescott finds himself sent on an illicit mission to the king's brilliant but enigmatic sister, Princess Elizabeth. But Brendan is soon compelled to work as a double agent by Elizabeth's protector, William Cecil, who promises in exchange to help him unravel the secret of his own mysterious past. A dark plot swirls around Elizabeth's quest to unravel the truth about the ominous disappearance of her seriously ill brother, King Edward VI. With only a bold stable boy and an audacious lady-in-waiting at his side, Brendan plunges into a ruthless gambit of half-truths, lies, and murder. Filled with the intrigue and pageantry of Tudor England, C. W. Gortner's The Tudor Secret is the first book in The Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles.