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Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France | 
 enlarge | Author: Leonie Frieda
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1053981
Media: Paperback
Pages: 464
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 0060744936
Dewey Decimal Number: 944.028
EAN: 9780060744939
ASIN: 0060744936
Publication Date: March 2006
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 loved it October 6, 2008
Stew Carr
What can I say about this biography? Before I read this, I had only a very general knowledge of Catherine de Medici, but reading Leonie Frieda's biography turned me into an obsessive Francophile for about a month! The book is so well written it is almost like watching a movie, Frieda really illustrates the history as writes it. I felt as though no stone was unturned in this biography, the author whittled down the life-story of Catherine and those around her until there was nothing left to tell. The book is an antidote to all of the black legends that surround Catherine de Medici, and I found it a refreshing read. This is popular history in a good way.
 Very readable and colourful March 17, 2008
John Hopper (London, UK)
A great read that demonstrates that real history can have the kind of characters and bizarre situations that, were a novelist to have created them, would be deemed too far-fetched. This is a well researched and readable biography, though it perhaps goes too far in trying to exculpate Catherine for masterminding the notorious St Bartholomew Eve's massacre for which she is most (in)famous today. The chapters were rather overlong as well.
Quite good, tells you everything you need to know August 19, 2007
K8 the Gr8 (London, England)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This biography is bursting with information and years of research which Frieda has skillfullly worked into a readable and edible book. While it isn't exactly a thriller, it would be badly out of place with its genre if it was, as biographies aren't exactly supposed to be compared with Agatha Christie. So don't expect excitement, but it's a good thing to take down from the shelf once in awhile and work your way through in little chunks, as anything more than that would be pushing it a bit.
A worthy Queen of France June 27, 2007
Steven Leppard (Scotland)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book on Catherine De Medici was wonderful,beautifully written & presented in an easy relaxed way the reader could follow, without losing any of the relevent points in Catherine De Medic's story. Indeed its ironic that women were not allowed to rule in their own right, due to the Saltic law, yet Catherine De Medici was a far better ruler than most of the French Kings before and after her.
Having read the trilogy on Catherine by Jean Plaidy, although well researched, had a very fictional favour, nevertheless i found myself drawn to this remarkable lady. Catherine without doubt ruled France and indeed saved the french monarchy through the weak & ineffective reigns of her 3 sons, Francis II, Charles IX and Henri III.
Leone Frieda gaves a very good insight to Catherine's early life, shows how she evolved and survived in a male dominated world and beat them at their own game.
Like the Borgia's Catherine De Medic was no saint, but i found myself admiring this Italian women, Queen Mother of France, who lived for and died for her family's power and position, she loved power herself but although she was ruthless when required, she displayed a very human side to her, i found myself smiling to myself. Catherine De Medici came from a very distinguished Italian family, the Medici of Florance, she was equal to them and certainly equal to her fellow rulers of her day.
This i believe is Leone Frieda's first biography, she has done justice not only to herself , but to another much maligned Woman, who certainly deserves our respect
 Interesting but flawed April 19, 2006
Vladimir Allen-Jones (York, UK)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
Unlike the other reviewers of this book I have to say that I thought this book was rather flawed. Frieda has assembled a wealth of material and some of what she says is very interesting- I especially liked her portrayal of the complex, and somewhat contradictory Henri III. Also despite the fact that she is not English Frieda does generally write very well. However her attempts to portray Catherine not as the Machiavellian and ruthless creature history remembers her to be but instead as a committed wife, loving mother and tolerant ruler do not entirely ring true. Frieda is obviously trying to avoid the hackneyed portrayal of Catherine mentioned above. I believe though that she over states her case. I also disliked some of the conclusions she drew on the more peripheral characters. I thought it was especially harsh to describe Antoinne de Bourbon as "bird brained," and that maybe Frieda was a little to uncritical on his brother Conde. Despite this Frieda does offer a very detailed account of the period, gives interesting pictures of many of the figures of Catherine's life and comes up with a different, if debatable conclusion.
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