New York, NY : Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2019 First Gallery books hardcover edition.
Table of Contents:
“…Dramatis personae -- Preface -- Duty -- Jinxed -- Mission to Marseille -- The briefcase -- Control -- The kiss -- Pearl of the French Alps -- Grand Duke -- Lifeless -- The beam -- They will send for you -- Tick, tick -- The Black Hollow -- Viennese waltzes -- All my love -- Lily of the valley -- The bunker -- The slaughter -- Still warm -- Pierre -- Hunting the hunter -- Fanning the damned -- Completing the loop -- Epilogue -- Appendix: the SOE official history affair.…”
New York : Mary Hollingsworth,; Pegasus Books Ltd., 2018 First Pegasus books hardcover edition.
Table of Contents:
“…Prologue: A city under siege : 'Florence in ashes rather than under the Medici' -- Migrants : Bonagiunta, Chiarissimo and their descendants, 1216-1348 -- Survivors : Salvestro, Foligno, Bicci and Vieri, 1348-1400 -- The fortune : Giovanni di Bicci, 1400-1425 -- Politics : Giovanni di Bicci, Averardo and Cosimo, 1426-1433 -- For honour and profit : Cosimo the banker, 1434-1450 -- The republican toga : Cosimo the politician, 1451-1464 -- The succession crisis : Piero the Gouty, 1464-1469 -- Youth at the helm : Lorenzo and Giuliano, 1469-1479 -- Pride : Lorenzo the Magnificent, 1480-1492 -- Nemesis : Piero and Cardinal Giovanni, 1492-1503 -- Exile : Cardinal Giovanni, Giulio and Giuliano, 1504-1512 -- Age of gold : Pope Leo X, 1513-1521 -- Age of iron : Pope Clement VII, 1521-1530 -- Imperial poodles : Pope Clement VII, Ippolito, Alessandro and Cosimo, 1531-1543 -- The new Augustus : Cosimo I, 1544-1559 -- Grand Duke : Cosimo I, 1560-1574 -- Adultery : Francesco I and Cardinal Ferdinando, 1574-1587 -- Cardinal to Grand Duke : Ferdinando I, 1587-1609 -- The unlucky prince : Cosimo II, Christine of Lorraine and Maria Magdalena of Austria, 1609-1628 -- Science and religion : Ferdinando II, 1628-1670 -- Vanity : Cosimo III, 1670-1723 -- Extinction : Gian Gastone, 1723-1737 -- Epilogue: Revival.…”