by Jean Plaidy · Javier Vergara-Argentina · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789501500783
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«Madame Serpiente» is Jean Plaidy's historical novel about Catherine de' Medici, published by Javier Vergara-Argentina in paperback (352 pages).
Catherine de' Medici, at fourteen, leaves Italy and her love to marry Henry of Orleans in France. Amid festivities and intrigues of the sixteenth-century court, the unwanted wife discovers her husband's relationship with Diane de Poitiers and, humiliated, harbours a ruthless ambition: that a Medici heir wear the French crown.
First instalment of the «Catherine de Medici» series; the novel was originally published in 1952 and this Spanish edition is from 1980.
Ideal for readers of Renaissance historical fiction, with plots of the French royalty and figures such as Catherine de' Medici.
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.
