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Alessandro de' Medici
A tale of race, rivalry and reveng
THE WOMAN WHO RULED THE VATICAN
Taking as many guises as his names, the Prince of Lies turned at times into a man-devouring ogre, a mutant medley of claws, horns and wings, or the brooding rebel that lit the imagination of Romantic painters, as Carla Passino discovers
In March 1457, a short, slight widow left Pembroke Castle to embark on a 100-mile journey across territories stalked by civil war and pestilence. Her husband had died only four months earlier, carried
Uncover the all-conquering Hun king whose nomadic horde terrorised Rome
A tolerant Shia rival to the Sunni caliphs
Over a long career, John Hardman has specialised to great effect in teasing out, from speeches, decrees, minutes, memoranda, letters, diaries and unsent drafts, the varied moods of French political de