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      Famed for having killed his cousin Alessandro, the Duke of Florence, in 1537, Lorenzino de’ Medici remains one of the most enigmatic figures of Italian literature. In his masterpiece, Apology for a Murder, he reveals the inner motives behind his act.

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      Product ID:9781847497925
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Series:Alma Classics 101 Pages
      Title:Apology for a Murder
      Authors:Author: Lorenzino de' Medici, Andrew Brown
      Page Count:128
      Subjects:Biography and non-fiction prose, Prose: non-fiction
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      Famed for having killed his cousin Alessandro, the Duke of Florence, in 1537, Lorenzino de’ Medici remains one of the most enigmatic figures of Italian literature. In his masterpiece, Apology for a Murder, he reveals the inner motives behind his act.

      Famed for having killed his cousin Alessandro, the Duke of Florence, in 1537, but also for writing accomplished literary works, including a comedy and several poems, Lorenzino de’ Medici remains one of the most enigmatic figures of Italian literature. In his masterpiece, Apology for a Murder, he reveals the inner motives behind his act, portraying himself as a hero to be numbered alongside the great tyrannicides of ancient Rome and Greece.

      Lorenzino himself, in 1548, was murdered by two soldiers hired either by the emperor Charles V or by Cosimo, Alessandro’s successor as Duke, and this volume includes the dramatic account of his killing by Francesco Bibboni, one of the assassins, as well as a selection of Lorenzino’s poems, giving a fully rounded image of the antihero of Alfred de Musset’s Lorenzaccio.


      Imprint Name:Alma Classics
      Publisher Name:Alma Books Ltd
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2019-02-21

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      Weight128 g
      Dimensions130 × 197 × 10 mm