Isabella de’ Medici, daughter of Grand Duke Cosimo I, is married to the brutal Paolo Giordano Orsini, and her friendship with the knight Lionardo Salviati and others breeds rumour and jealousy. Guerrazzi, the Italian patriot novelist, paints a court of poisons, informers and pasquinades, drawn from a real tragedy of 1576.
A dark Italian Risorgimento novel of tyranny and passion, translated in 1859. Download the free EPUB.