
The Duke's Assassin
Exile and Death of Lorenzino de' Medici
Stefano Dall'Aglio(Author)
Yale University Press
Will be published approx. on 28. August 2015
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-300-18978-0 (ISBN)
Description
Stefano Dall'Aglio sheds new light on the notorious Florentine Lorenzino de' Medici (also known as Lorenzaccio) and on two of the most infamous assassinations of Italian Renaissance history. In 1537 Lorenzino changed the course of history by murdering Alessandro de' Medici, first duke of Florence, and paving the way for the accession of the new duke, Cosimo I. In 1548 Lorenzino was killed in Venice in revenge for the assassination he had committed. Basing his work on extensive research in the historical archives of Florence and Simancas, Dall'Aglio reconstructs the events surrounding these murders and involving the Medici, their loyalists, the Florentine republican exiles, and some of the most powerful sovereigns of the time. The first publication in a century, and the first work in English, to examine the life of Lorenzino de' Medici, this fascinating revisionist history is as gripping as a detective novel, as Dall'Aglio unravels a 500-year-old mystery, revealing that behind the bloody death of the duke's assassin there was the Emperor Charles V.
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Winner of the 2016 Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize given by the American Historical Association. -- Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize * American Historical Association *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
13 b-w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
615 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-18978-0 (9780300189780)
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Persons
Stefano Dall'Aglio is a research fellow at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published several books on the political and religious history of Renaissance Florence and Italy. Donald Weinstein is professor emeritus, University of Arizona. He is the author of several books on Italian history and is a world authority on Savonarola and the Italian Renaissance.