Bianca Cappello by Mary G. Steegmann 1913 First Edition

Bianca Capello (1548 – 1587) was a Venetian noblewoman, renowned for her beauty and intelligence, whose court intrigues were the scandal of her time. Against the will of her family, Bianca ran off and married a young Florentine named Pietro Buonaventuri. She soon became the mistress of Francesco I de’ Medici, at first secretly and then openly after the murder of her husband (1569). She succeeded in marrying Francesco (1578) using a bizarre plot in which she feigned pregnancy and presented him the baby of a common woman as her son. Read this book to learn more details about the life of this fascinating woman.  

Title: Bianca Cappello 
Author: Mary G. Steegmann 
Publisher: London Constable and Company 
Publication Date: 1913 
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover, wine-red original binding with bronzy-gold embossed spine title, blind embossing on cover 
Language: English 
Illustrated: 14 plates 
Condition: Please see the images 
Printing: First printing 
Pages: 293 
Measures approximately: 8 3/4 x 6 x 1 3/4 inches (22 x 15 x 2 cm.) 
Interests: Biography, Medici, Venice, Women's Studies, Italian History, Florence Italy 

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