Dumas once planned a companion to his Crimes of the Borgias devoted to the Medici but never wrote it; Staley took up the idea after his Guilds of Florence. These episodes range from the Pazzi Conspiracy against Lorenzo and Giuliano to the deaths of Cosimo I’s sons Giovanni and Garzia, told with the colour of romance rather than the restraint of a textbook.
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