April Blood
  • Published: 1 March 2004
  • ISBN: 9780712667876
  • Imprint: Pimlico
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $32.99
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April Blood

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'Wonderfully readable...has the ingredients of a Mafia thriller' Daily Telegraph

In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family dramatically miscarried. The younger of the two brothers was killed, but Lorenzo the Magnificent, the brilliant poet and connoisseur escaped. A bloodbath followed and all of Italy was at once affected as it emerged that the Pope, the King of Naples, and the Duke of Urbino were deeply implicated in the plot, and that binding treaties required Milan and Venice to assist Florence.

If the conspirators had succeeded and Lorenzo had been killed the future of the Medici family and, indeed, of the Florentine state would have been utterly transformed.
  • Published: 1 March 2004
  • ISBN: 9780712667876
  • Imprint: Pimlico
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Lauro Martines

One of the world's foremost authorities on the Italian Renaissance, Lauro Martines was born in Chicago, has a Ph. D from Harvard University, but has lived in London since 1970. He was Professor of European History at the University of California. He and his wife, the novelist Julia O'Faolain, lived for some years in Florence. His books include Lawyers and Statecraft in Renaissance Florence, Power and Imagination: City States in Renaissance Italy, Society and History in English Renaissance Verse, An Italian Renaissance Sextet: Six Tales in Historical Context, Strong Words: Writing and Social Strain in the Italian Renaissance, and April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici.

Praise for April Blood

A spine-chilling political drama of conspiracy, murder and bloody revenge

The Times

A riveting tale in which we can recognise analogies with our own world

Financial Times

Sheds light on the whole apparatus of political powering Renaissance Florence

Week

Captivating

Times Literary Supplement

Elegant and incisive...a masterful reconstruction

Sunday Times