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Download or read book Catherine de Medici written by and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2005 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life and accomplishments of the queen who worked to achieve peace between French Protestants and Catholics during the reigns of her husband, King Henry II of France, and her sons.
Download or read book Catherine de'Medici written by R J Knecht and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine de' Medici (1519-89) was the wife of one king of France and the mother of three more - the last, sorry representatives of the Valois, who had ruled France since 1328. She herself is of preeminent importance to French history, and one of the most controversial of all historical figures. Despised until she was powerful enough to be hated, she was, in her own lifetime and since, the subject of a "Black Legend" that has made her a favourite subject of historical novelists (most notably Alexandre Dumas, whose Reine Margot has recently had new currency on film). Yet there is no recent biography of her in English. This new study, by a leading scholar of Renaissance France, is a major event. Catherine, a neglected and insignificant member of the Florentine Medici, entered French history in 1533 when she married the son of Francis I for short-lived political reasons: her uncle was pope Clement VII, who died the following year. Now of no diplomatic value, Catherine was treated with contempt at the French court even after her husband's accession as Henry II in 1547. Even so, she gave him ten children before he was killed in a tournament in 1559. She was left with three young boys, who succeeded to the throne as Francis II (1559-60), Charles IX (1560-74) and Henry III (1574-89). As regent and queen-mother, a woman and with no natural power-base of her own, she faced impossible odds. France was accelerating into chaos, with political faction at court and religious conflict throughout the land. As the country disintegrated, Catherine's overriding concern was for the interests of her children. She was tireless in her efforts to protect her sons' inheritance, and to settle her daughters in advantageous marriages. But France needed more. Catherine herself was both peace-loving and, in an age of frenzied religious hatred, unbigoted. She tried to use the Huguenots to counterbalance the growing power of the ultra-Catholic Guises but extremism on all sides frustrated her. She was drawn into the violence. Her name is ineradicably associated with its culmination, the Massacre of St Bartholomew (24 August 1572), when thousands of Huguenots were slaughtered in Paris and elsewhere. To this day no-one knows for certain whether Catherine instigated the massacre or not, but here Robert Knecht explores the probabilities in a notably level-headed fashion. His book is a gripping narrative in its own right. It offers both a lucid exposition of immensely complex events (with their profound imact on the future of France), and also a convincing portrait of its enigmatic central character. In going behind the familiar Black Legend, Professor Knecht does not make the mistake of whitewashing Catherine; but he shows how intractable was her world, and how shifty or intransigent the people with whom she had to deal. For all her flaws, she emerges as a more sympathetic - and, in her pragmatism, more modern - figure than most of her leading contemporaries.
Book Synopsis The Girlhood of Catherine De' Medici by : Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Download or read book The Girlhood of Catherine De' Medici written by Thomas Adolphus Trollope and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Girlhood of Catherine De' Medici by : Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Download or read book The Girlhood of Catherine De' Medici written by Thomas Adolphus Trollope and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catherine de Medici by : Jean Heritier
Download or read book Catherine de Medici written by Jean Heritier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Caterina de Medici by : Jean Heritier
Download or read book Caterina de Medici written by Jean Heritier and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Identities of Catherine de' Medici by : Susan Broomhall
Download or read book The Identities of Catherine de' Medici written by Susan Broomhall and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative analysis of the representational strategies that constructed Catherine de’ Medici and sought to explain her behaviour and motivations.
Book Synopsis Barbie Sogna Caterina De' Medici by : Elisabetta Cianfanelli
Download or read book Barbie Sogna Caterina De' Medici written by Elisabetta Cianfanelli and published by Edizioni Polistampa. This book was released on 2008 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The volume explains, in a rich and detailed way, the transformation of Barbie ... into Caterina de' Medici by means of the wedding dress she wore when she married Enrico di Valois on October 27, 1533. The dress was recently recreated in both life-size and a scale model ... with extraordinary accuracy and couture skill; it was then presented on January 18th, 2008 at Palazzo Medici Riccardi on the occasion of the event "Pitti Bimbo." The volume comes complete with a large introduction on the symbolism of Barbie, the history of Palazzo Medici Riccardi and the figure of Caterina de' Medici, court life and other curiosities such as beauty treatments used during the Renaissance."--Taken from Publisher's website.
Book Synopsis The Age of Catherine de Medici by : John Ernest Neale
Download or read book The Age of Catherine de Medici written by John Ernest Neale and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1962 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Catherine de' Medici (Italian: Caterina de' Medici, 13 April 1519? 5 January 1589), daughter of Lorenzo II de' Medici and of Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne, was a Franco/Italian noblewoman who was Queen consort of France from 1547 until 1559, as the wife of King Henry II of France. In 1533, at the age of fourteen, Caterina married Henry, second son of King Francis I and Queen Claude of France. Under the gallicised version of her name, Catherine de Médicis, she was Queen consort of France as the wife of King Henry II of France from 1547 to 1559. Throughout his reign, Henry excluded Catherine from participating in state affairs and instead showered favours on his chief mistress, Diane de Poitiers, who wielded much influence over him. Henry's death thrust Catherine into the political arena as mother of the frail fifteen-year-old King Francis II. When he died in 1560, she became regent on behalf of her ten-year-old son King Charles IX and was granted sweeping powers. After Charles died in 1574, Catherine played a key role in the reign of her third son, Henry III. He dispensed with her advice only in the last months of her life."--Wikipedia.
Book Synopsis The Later Years of Catherine De' Medici by : Edith Helen Sichel
Download or read book The Later Years of Catherine De' Medici written by Edith Helen Sichel and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catherine De' Medici and the French Reformation by : Edith Helen Sichel
Download or read book Catherine De' Medici and the French Reformation written by Edith Helen Sichel and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catherine de Medici written by and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Vita di Caterina de' Medici by : Eugenio Albèri
Download or read book Vita di Caterina de' Medici written by Eugenio Albèri and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catherine de' Medici by : Mary Hollingsworth
Download or read book Catherine de' Medici written by Mary Hollingsworth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and times of Catherine de’ Medici—the most powerful woman in sixteenth-century Europe—as seen through her often controversial role in religion and the arts. During an age of heightened religious conflict, Catherine de' Medici lived her life at the center of sixteenth-century European and French politics. Daughter of Lorenzo II, the Medici ruler of Florence—and then wedded to a French prince by papal decree at the age of fourteen—Catherine first became queen consort of France and then mother to three French kings (Francis II, Charles IX, and Henry III) who reigned in an era of almost continuous civil and religious strife. A lavish promoter of the arts, Catherine patronized poets, painters, and sculptors; lavished ruinous sums on the building and embellishment of monuments and palaces; and masterminded spectacular entertainments and tournaments that prefigure the splendor and ritual of the court of Versailles. Catherine maintained eighty ladies-in-waiting at court; it was rumored she used these women as bait to seduce courtiers for her political ends. Her admiration for the seer Nostradamus fueled claims of her love for the occult and the dark arts. Posterity has condemned her as the epitome of the scheming royal matriarch, her reputation tainted forever by her role in instigating the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of Protestants in 1572. Catherine de’ Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen is Mary Hollingsworth's evocative, authoritative biography of the most extraordiary woman of the sixteenth-century.
Book Synopsis Catherine de Medici by : Leonie Frieda
Download or read book Catherine de Medici written by Leonie Frieda and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-03-14 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poisoner, despot, necromancer -- 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 to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and personal odds -- from a troubled childhood in Florence to her marriage to Henry, son of King Francis I of France; from her transformation of French culture to her fight to protect her throne and her sons' birthright. Based on thousands of private letters, it is a remarkable account of one of the most influential women ever to wear a crown.
Book Synopsis Catherine de' Medici by : Honoré de Balzac
Download or read book Catherine de' Medici written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Duchessina written by Carolyn Meyer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While her tyrannical family is out of favor in Italy, young Catherine de Medici is raised in convents, then in 1533, when she is fourteen, her uncle, Pope Clement VII, arranges for her marriage to prince Henri of France, who is destined to become king.
