A Mattress Maker's Daughter: The Renaissance Romance of Don Giovanni De' Medici and Livia Vernazza

by Brendan Dooley

Book Overview

A Mattress Maker's Daughter richly illuminates the narrative of two people whose mutual affection shaped their own lives and in some ways their times. According to the Renaissance legend, told and retold across the centuries, a woman of questionable reputation bamboozles a middle-aged warrior-prince into marrying her, and the family takes revenge. He is don Giovanni de' Medici, son of the Florentine grand duke; she is Livia Vernazza, daughter...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674724666
• ISBN13: 9780674724662
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"