The Italian Woman - Medici Trilogy, Bk 2 Author:Jean Plaidy No longer humiliated and neglected, Catherine de' Medici, the Italian Woman, was free to seek revenge. Henry II of France was dead and she was Queen Regent. — Mother of Kings, her sons were tainted in mind and body: Sickly Francis, devoted to Mary, the lovely Queen of Scots; Charles, subjected to bouts of madness; Henry, handsome and perverte... more »d. For them she would scheme and kill.
As Catherine plotted to hold the balance of power between Catholic and Protestant, the word Italian became synonymous with Poisoner...
Jean Plaidy was a pen-name of Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert, who also published as Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr, and others.« less
No longer humiliated and neglected Catherine de'Medici was free to seek revenge. Henry II of France was dead and she was Queen Regent. She plotted to hold the balance of power between Catholic and Protestant.