Isabella Orsini

Complete and unabridged, with 47 full-page plates by Lavinia Fontana, Annibale Carracci and Edvard Munch. Florence of the Medici, and Cosimo the First's daughter strangled by her husband with her family's approval. Guerrazzi, repeatedly imprisoned for conspiracy, wrote his historical novels as nationalist allegories; he was later dictator of Tuscany for a few months in 1849. This edition includes ...