Duchessina : a novel of Catherine de Medici
2007
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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.
Item Details
ISBN: 9780152066208
Description: 261 pages : genealogical table ; 18 cm.
LCCN: sas00819138
Control Number: 174677
Publisher: Boston : Graphia, [2007]Series:
Subjects:
- Arranged marriage -- Fiction.
- Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589 -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction.
- Clement VII, Pope, 1478-1534 -- Fiction.
- Convents -- Fiction.
- Heads of state -- Fiction.
- Italy -- History -- 16th century -- Fiction.
- Kings and rulers -- Fiction.
- Nobility -- Fiction.
- Orphans -- Fiction.
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