The Italian Woman : A Catherine de' Medici Novel (Paperback)

from cathymoore

Book two of three about the life of Catherine de Medici. This follows Catherine through middle age, as she focuses her energy on keeping her children on the throne of France against the backdrop of religious reformation. While I felt sorry for her in part one, as a young woman in love with a man ...

from msjessie

Jean Plaidy is certainly a prolific historical fiction author, but more and more I find that her work is hit or miss with me. I seem to fare better with her Tudor-centric novels than I did with this novel set during Catherine's life as regent of France for her sons. I read the first novel in the ...

from jkdavies

oh the wickedness of Catherine! A childhood favourite

from LibraryCin

3.75 stars This is the 2nd book in Plaidy's trilogy of Catherine de Medici. Catherine was known as Madame le Serpent and was often thought to have poisoned her enemies. She was power-hungry and cunning. This book follows her through her husband's death, during the time of her oldest son's (Fra...

from PhilSyphe

Rather than picking up from where "Madame Serpent" leaves off, this sequel backtracks several years, beginning by showing the reader one of Catherine de Medici's greatest rivals, Jeanne of Navarre. Only when we reach the second of the three long chapters in this book does Catherine once again tak...