April blood
Florence and the plot against the Medici
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Word Count
75,500 words, Guess
Page Count
302 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3577179M
- ISBN-139780195152951
- ISBN-100195152956
- OCLC Control Number50960657
- OCLC Control Numberaprilbloodfloren00mart
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2002153155
- Goodreads894708
- LibraryThing14202
Classifications
- DDC945/.5105
- LCCDG737.9 .M376 2003
- DDC945.5105
Description
One of the worldʼs leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant and violent society of fifteenth-century Florence. His disturbing narrative opens up an entire culture, revealing the dark side of Renaissance man and politician Lorenzo deʼ Medici. On a Sunday in April 1478, assassins attacked Lorenzo and his brother as they attended Mass in the cathedral of Florence. Lorenzo scrambled to safety as Giuliano bled to death on the cathedral floor. April Blood moves outward in time and space from that murderous event, unfolding a story of tangled passions, ambition, treachery, and revenge. The conspiracy was led by one of the cityʼs most noble clans, the Pazzi, financiers who feared and resented the Medici's swaggering new role as political bosses -- but the web of intrigue spread through all of Italy. Bankers, mercenaries, the Duke of Urbino, the King of Naples, and Pope Sixtus IV entered secretly into the plot. Florence was plunged into a peninsular war, and Lorenzo was soon fighting for his own and his familyʼs survival. - Jacket flap.
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- Biography.
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- April blood: Florence and the plot against the Medici
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