登入選單
返回Google圖書搜尋
Isabella de'Medici
Caroline P. Murphy
其他書名
The Glorious Life and Tragic End of a Renaissance Princess
出版Faber & Faber, 2011-02-03
主題Biography & Autobiography / Historical
ISBN05712660539780571266050
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vu5BXN4wSpsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBookSAMPLE
註釋Isabella de' Medici was the hostess of a glittering circle in Renaissance Florence. Beautiful and liberated, she not only matched the intellectual accomplishments of her male contemporaries, but sought sexual parity also, engaging in an adulterous affair with her husband's cousin. It was this affair - and her very success as First Lady of Florence - that led to her death at the hands of her husband at the age of just thirty-four. She left behind a remarkable story, and as her legacy a son who became the best of the Orsini Dukes, immortalised by Shakespeare as Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night. Caroline P. Murphy illuminates this often misunderstood figure, and in the process brings to life the home of creativity, the city of Florence itself.