by Jean Plaidy · BOLSILLO BYBLOS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466628662
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«Madame Serpiente» is the historical novel by Jean Plaidy, published by Bolsillo Byblos in paperback (416 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Catherine de' Medici from her youth in Florence to her role in the sixteenth-century French court. Amid palace intrigues, alliances and conspiracies, Catherine must make her way in an environment dominated by power and arranged marriages, until she becomes an influential and enigmatic figure.
First instalment of the Medici trilogy. Translation by Isabel Ugarte of the English original «Madame Serpent», originally published in 1952.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the Renaissance, the sixteenth-century French court and the inner workings of power.
Eleanor Alice Hibbert was an English writer of historical romances. She was a prolific writer who published several books a year in different literary genres, each genre under a different pen name: Jean Plaidy for fictionalized history of European royalty and the three volumes of her history of the Spanish Inquisition, Victoria Holt for gothic romances, and Philippa Carr for a multi-generational family saga. She also wrote light romances, crime novels, murder mysteries and thrillers under pseudonyms Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, and Ellalice Tate.
