Isabella Orsini

Florence of the Medici, and Cosimo the First's daughter strangled by her husband with her family's approval. Guerrazzi, repeatedly imprisoned for conspiracy, wrote his historical novels as nationalist allegories; he was later dictator of Tuscany for a few months in 1849. This edition includes forty-seven plates of paintings bound with the text, among them works by Edvard Munch, Leandro Bassano and Michele da Verona, and is translated by Luigi Monti.