{"product_id":"9780099586944","title":"The Black Prince of Florence : The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici by Catherine Fletcher","description":"`A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 1531 - after years of brutal war and political intrigue, the bastard son of a Medici Duke and a `half-negro' maidservant rides into Florence. Within a year, he rules the city as its Prince. Backed by the Pope and his future father-in-law the Holy Roman Emperor, the nineteen-year-old Alessandro faces down bloody family rivalry and the scheming hostility of Italy's oligarchs to reassert the Medicis' faltering grip on the turbulent city-state. Six years later, as he awaits an adulterous liaison, he will be murdered by his cousin in another man's bed.   `Nothing in sixteenth-century history is more astonishing' Hilary Mantel\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56223901876597,"sku":"9780099586944","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780099586944.jpg?v=1762219641","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780099586944","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}