4.1
Biografieën
The inspiration for the STARZ original series, The Serpent Queen, premiering September 11.
“A beautifully written portrait of a ruthless, subtle and fearless woman fighting for survival and power in a world of gangsterish brutality, routine assassination and religious mania. . . . Frieda has brought a largely forgotten heroine-villainess and a whole sumptuously vicious era back to life. . . . This is The Godfather meets Elizabeth.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
Poisoner, besotted mother, despot, necromancer, engineer of a massacre: the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this critically hailed biography, Leonie Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen of France to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and personal odds.
Based on comprehensive research including thousands of Catherine’s own letters, Frieda unfurls Catherine’s story from her troubled childhood in Florence to her tumultuous marriage to Henry II of France; her transformation of French culture to her reign as a queen who would use brutality to ensure her children’s royal birthright. Brilliantly executed, this enthralling biography goes beyond myth to paint a very human portrait of this remarkable figure.
© 2018 HarperAudio (Luisterboek): 9780062905901
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 16 oktober 2018
4.1
Biografieën
The inspiration for the STARZ original series, The Serpent Queen, premiering September 11.
“A beautifully written portrait of a ruthless, subtle and fearless woman fighting for survival and power in a world of gangsterish brutality, routine assassination and religious mania. . . . Frieda has brought a largely forgotten heroine-villainess and a whole sumptuously vicious era back to life. . . . This is The Godfather meets Elizabeth.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
Poisoner, besotted mother, despot, necromancer, engineer of a massacre: the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this critically hailed biography, Leonie Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen of France to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and personal odds.
Based on comprehensive research including thousands of Catherine’s own letters, Frieda unfurls Catherine’s story from her troubled childhood in Florence to her tumultuous marriage to Henry II of France; her transformation of French culture to her reign as a queen who would use brutality to ensure her children’s royal birthright. Brilliantly executed, this enthralling biography goes beyond myth to paint a very human portrait of this remarkable figure.
© 2018 HarperAudio (Luisterboek): 9780062905901
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 16 oktober 2018
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René
29 apr 2023
It would have been better if the narrator (apparently a french name does not mean a french background) had been able to pronounce the many many names in their original French way. Now i found myself constantly wondering if Bourbon was maybe a whiskey being served. This just am example of the confusion the narrator’s pronunciation of French names brought me. Confusion that was added to, because the pronunciation was not constantly the same. I heard names like Navarre and Naverre and constable and connotable. And since namedropping was a large part of the writers way of meticulously detailing the life at the French court, it was distracting and as said before, confusing.
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