Catherine De Medici by Leonie Frieda

Catherine De Medici

Leonie Frieda

440 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced

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Catherine de Medici was half French, half Italian. Orphaned in infancy, she was the sole legitimate heiress to the Medici family fortune. Married at fourteen to the future Henri II of France, she was constantly humiliated by his influential mistre...

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