Violent conflict rent the city state and she found herself imprisoned and threatened by her family’s enemies before finally being released and married off to the handsome Prince Henry of France. In her latest historical fiction, Jeanne Kalogridis tells Catherine’s story-that of a tender young girl, destined to be a pawn in Machiavellian games.īorn into one of Florence’s most powerful families, Catherine was soon left a fabulously rich heiress by the early deaths of her parents. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, Catherine de Medici is one of the most maligned monarchs in history. but all too well.Ĭonfidante of Nostradamus, scheming mother-in-law to Mary, Queen of Scots, and architect of the bloody St. From Jeanne Kalogridis, the bestselling author of I, Mona Lisa and The Borgia Bride, comes a new novel that tells the passionate story of a queen who loved not wisely.
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