April Blood
Author: Martines, Lauro
ISBN: 9780712667876
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Mar 2004
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback / softback
'Wonderfully readable...has the ingredients of a Mafia thriller' Daily Telegraph
In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family dramatically miscarried. The younger of the two brothers was killed, but Lorenzo the Magnificent, the brilliant poet and connoisseur escaped. A bloodbath followed and all of Italy was at once affected as it emerged that the Pope, the King of Naples, and the Duke of Urbino were deeply implicated in the plot, and that binding treaties required Milan and Venice to assist Florence.
If the conspirators had succeeded and Lorenzo had been killed the future of the Medici family and, indeed, of the Florentine state would have been utterly transformed.
ISBN: 9780712667876
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Mar 2004
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback / softback
'Wonderfully readable...has the ingredients of a Mafia thriller' Daily Telegraph
In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family dramatically miscarried. The younger of the two brothers was killed, but Lorenzo the Magnificent, the brilliant poet and connoisseur escaped. A bloodbath followed and all of Italy was at once affected as it emerged that the Pope, the King of Naples, and the Duke of Urbino were deeply implicated in the plot, and that binding treaties required Milan and Venice to assist Florence.
If the conspirators had succeeded and Lorenzo had been killed the future of the Medici family and, indeed, of the Florentine state would have been utterly transformed.
