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The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici. Catherine Fletcher. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xxvii + 308 pp. $29.95.
- Author(s):
- Mary Gallucci (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Group(s):
- CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern, LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian, LLC Shakespeare, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
- Subject(s):
- Race, Ethnicity, Renaissance, Biography--Study and teaching, Culture--Study and teaching, Blacks--Study and teaching, Italy, Sixteenth century, Seventeenth century, Historiography
- Item Type:
- Book review
- Tag(s):
- race history, moor, Race/ethnicity, Renaissance culture, Biography Studies, Hybridity, Cultural studies, Black studies, Early modern Italy
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6WG4J
- Abstract:
- As the first biography in English of Alessandro de' Medici, this important book raises questions about how historical narratives are constructed and how race has evolved into a critical, if contested, category.
- Notes:
- The review raises questions about who defines race and how racial categories have come to inform notions of history and historical progress.
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- Published as:
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- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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