{"product_id":"9780099586944","title":"The Black Prince of Florence : The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Fletcher, Catherine \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 20\/04\/2017,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 368 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780099586944,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence’ Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 1531 – after years of brutal war and political intrigue, the bastard son of a Medici Duke and a ‘half-negro’ maidservant rides into Florence. Within a year, he rules the city as its Prince. Backed by the Pope and his future father-in-law the Holy Roman Emperor, the nineteen-year-old Alessandro faces down bloody family rivalry and the scheming hostility of Italy’s oligarchs to reassert the Medicis’ faltering grip on the turbulent city-state. Six years later, as he awaits an adulterous liaison, he will be murdered by his cousin in another man’s bed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Nothing in sixteenth-century history is more astonishing’ Hilary Mantel\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697772789804,"sku":"9780099586944","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780099586944.jpg?v=1722603114","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780099586944","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}