Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0060744936 ISBN13: 9780060744939 Release Date: March 2006 Publisher: Harper Perennial Length: 464 Pages Weight: 0.88 lbs. Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.9" The inspiration for the STARZ original series, The Serpent Queen -- second season premiering July 12th!"A beautifully written portrait of a ruthless, subtle and fearless woman fighting for survival and power in a world of gangsterish brutality, routine assassination and religious mania. . . . Frieda has brought a largely forgotten heroine-villainess and a whole sumptuously vicious era back to life. . . . This is The Godfather meets Elizabeth." --Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red TsarPoisoner, besotted mother, despot, necromancer, engineer of a massacre: the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this critically hailed biography, Leonie Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen of France to reveal a skilled ruler