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Jean Heritier
Catherine de Medici

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Originally published in 1968 this book is an unforgettable portrait of an impoverished orphaned daughter of the Medici, pitchforked at the age of fourteen into her royal destiny and having to bear the rivalry of Diane de Poiters and the description ‘the Florentine shopkeeper’ who nevertheless became one of the most powerful characters in the shaping of sixteenth century Europe.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 496 ● ISBN 9781000021820 ● Translator Charlotte Haldane ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2019 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 7116099 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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