Leonie Frieda

Enrique es un joven profesor universitario obsesionado con un poema. Quiere escribir un poema igual, quiere descubrir qué significa y quiere conocer a su autor.Pero a veces un poema es más que una union de versos; a veces un poema esconde una historia.Comedia con tintes de realismo magico.Mas informacion en ytodolodemasesliteratura.blogspot.com

Enrique es un joven profesor universitario obsesionado con un poema. Quiere escribir un poema igual, quiere descubrir qué significa y quiere conocer a su autor. Pero a veces un poema es más que una union de versos; a veces un poema esconde una historia.Comedia con tintes de realismo magico.Mas informacion en ytodolodemasesliteratura.blogspot.com

Poder, estratégia, paixão e vingançaÓrfã desde a infância, herdeira de um nome antigo e de uma vasta fortuna, Catarina de Médici foi educada na corte Florentina. Com apenas 14 anos, o seu tio, o Papa

Catherine de Medici was half French, half Italian. Orphaned in infancy, she was the sole legitimate heiress to the Medici family fortune. Married at fourteen to the future Henri II of France, she was constantly humiliated by his influential mistress Diane de Poitiers. When her husband died as a result of a duelling accident in Paris - Leonie Frieda's magnificient, throat-grabbing opening chapter - Catherine was made queen regent during the short reign of her eldest son (married to Mary Queen of Scots and like many of her children he died young). When her second son became king she was the power behind the throne. She nursed dynastic ambitions, but was continually drawn into political and religious intrigues between catholics and protestants that plagued France for much of the later part of her life. It had always been said that she was implicated in the notorious Saint Barthlomew's Day Massacre, together with the king and her third son who succeeded to the throne in 1574, but was murdered - he was left standing with his assassin's dagger in one hand, and his own entrails in the other.Her political influence waned, but she survived long enough to ensure the succession of her son-in-law who had married her daughter Margaret. Leonie Frieda has returned to original sources and re-read the thousands of letters left by Catherine. There has not been a biography in English of Catherine for many years and she believes that the time has come to show her - like Queen Elizabeth I of England - as one of the most influential women in sixteenth-century Europe.

Catalina de Médicis (1519-1589) ha sido descrita como “la Reina Negra” y “el gusano de la tumba de Italia”, pero según su nueva biógrafa, Leonie Frieda, la verdad es muy distinta. Huérfana en su infa