Apology for a Murder (Hesperus Classics) - Softcover

De Medici, Lorenzino

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843910799 ISBN 13: 9781843910794

Verlag: Hesperus Press Ltd, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Book by deMedici Lorenzino

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'It is a beautifully written - and translated - piece of writing, but interesting chiefly insofar as it was written at all' --The Independent Online

'A wonderful Renaissance curiosity. It's a little gem of moralising spin, in defence of pre-emptive violence' --The Independent

Reseña del editor

In 1537, Alessandro de’ Medici, Duke of Florence, was brutally stabbed by his cousin Lorenzino. Here, for the first time in English, we can examine the murderer’s own defense of his actions in this jewel of Renaissance rhetoric. In this compelling diatribe, Lorenzino de’ Medici presents himself as worthy of comparison with some of the greatest heroes of classical Greece and Rome, purely motivated by love of liberty. His account, however, is generally assumed to be false, and Lorenzino’s reputation is that of a brutal, amoral thug, the antihero of Alfred de Musset’s drama Lorenzaccio. When the Medici regime was reinstated the same year as Alessandro’s murder, Lorenzino’s own assassination was ordered; here, dramatically paired with the Apology, is the fascinating account of Francesco Bibbone, Lorenzino’s own murderer. Florentine nobleman and dramatist Lorenzino de’ Medici is one of the most notorious figures of Renaissance Italy.

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• Verlag: Hesperus Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1843910799
• ISBN 13: 9781843910794
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112