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The riveting sequel to The House of Medici: Inheritance of Ability.Lucrezia Tornabuoni, raised in the Palazzo Medici alongside Cosimo's children, always expected to marry his charismatic younger son, Giovanni. However now in later life, she locates herself imprisoned in a loveless marriage with the gout-ridden elder boy, Piero. Like Cosimo, she perceives the future salvation of the family in the hands of her own boy, Lorenzo the Magnificent, but how can she make certain he inherits the mantle before Piero ruins everything? For years she has groomed her boy to be always a great prince, and in the process to disregard the Medici Loan company - whose prosperity has funded the City and Republic of Florence. However now the overall economy is faltering, the amount of money is running out, the burdens of authority are becoming more onerous on her behalf boy, and she commences to question whether she has led him astray. Her difficulty is the fact that in the shut down contemporary society of Florence, there is certainly no-one she can confide in. Then, while on a voyage away from the city, she is contacted by a young priest, Girolamo Savonarola, just lately appointed to a coaching post in Florence and requesting information about the workings of Florentine contemporary society. In confessing the secrets of her family to the benign outsider, she actually is able to unburden herself of the various problems that plague her. But Savonarola may not be the easy monk he appears, his objectives demonstrating frustrating in compatibility with Lucrezia's as the two individuals hurtle towards an exciting and unexpected finishing.
