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Brackett, John (2005) "Race and Rulership: Alessandro de' Medici, first Medici Duke of Florence, 1529–1537," in T.F. Earle and K.J.P. Lowe, Black Africans in Renaissance Europe. Fletcher, Catherine (2016). The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici. Oxford University Press.
Junio Valerio Scipione Ghezzo Marcantonio Maria Borghese (6 June 1906 – 26 August 1974), nicknamed The Black Prince, was an Italian Navy commander during the regime of Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party and a prominent hardline neo-fascist politician in post-war Italy.
Edward, the eldest son of Edward III of England, Lord of Ireland and ruler of Gascony, and Queen Philippa, was born at Woodstock, Oxfordshire, on 15 June 1330.His father, Edward III, had been in conflict with the French over English lands in France and also the kingship of France; Edward III's mother and the Prince's grandmother, Queen Isabella of France was a daughter of the French king ...
The first de facto Lord (Italian: Signore) in the history of the Republic of Florence was Cosimo de' Medici.Thanks to his moderate policy, Cosimo managed to maintain power for over thirty years until his death, ruling the state silently through his trusted men and thus allowing the consolidation of his family, the Medici, in the government of Florence.
Edward portrayed c. 1440–1450 wearing a blue mantle over plate armour and a surcoat. Bruges Garter Book, British Library [3]. Edward became known as the "Black Prince" due to his distinctive black plate armour [2] and reputation for "savagery as a military commander"; he has been accused of ordering the massacre of hundreds of men, women and children in the sack following the Siege of ...
Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence, 16th-century Italian noble, sometimes called "The Moor " or "The Black Prince" The Black Prince , an account of the life of John Naimbanna , a prince of the Temne people from Sierra Leone
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The Cronaca fiorentina is not only a detailed history of the Black Death in Florence, but also a history of Florentine political groups and the political ambitions of individuals. [1] [4] Bonaiuti stresses the economic disruption in Florence during the fourteenth century which was the result of the bubonic plague. [5]