The Medici Queen - Hardcover

Kalogridis, Jeanne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0007252137 ISBN 13: 9780007252138

Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2008

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Praise for Jeanne Kalogridis: The Borgia Bride: 'Love, lust, incest and murder: this historical romance has it all.' The Mail on Sunday 'from sexual passion to mortal danger, the dramatic shift of real historical events will keep the reader turning the pages.' Philippa Gregory 'corset-busting escapism.' The Sunday Times

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The Medici Queen traces the evolution of Catherine de Medici - the great-granddaughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent - from an unloved, timid orphan to France's most cunning monarch, often blamed for the horrific 1572 St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. From childhood, Catherine is troubled by bloody visions of her adopted country's evil future, a future she struggles to prevent by practical and occult means. Three times she consults with the astrologer Nostradamus in an effort to learn how to prevent the coming scourge. But when she is unable to give her husband heirs to the French throne, she resorts to the darkest magic possible in order to conceive - only to discover, in the end, that her most beloved child, King Henri III, will be the author of the bloodshed she so fears unless she risks her life and kingdom to destroy him. The Medici Queen is the tale of a country torn apart by religious strife and the savage internecine wars of the royal Valois, Bourbon and Guise dynasties.

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• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0007252137
• ISBN 13: 9780007252138
• Einband: Tapa dura