And Catherine de'Medici, Queen of France, made sure she was informed of the intrigues at court by expressly employing a group of pretty young women to engage in pillow talk with gullible male ...

Her father was Lorenzo de Medici, Duke of Urbino and ruler of Florence ... This greatly improved the queen’s position and the couple eventually had seven surviving children.

By 1427, they were the most powerful family in the city, and far richer than the Medici. They had been the patrons of genius and cultural icons, but the family was more interested in waging war ...

Such becomes clear from Mary Hollingsworth’s “Catherine de’ Medici,” a granular biography of a woman often maligned as “the ...

Starz is celebrating Women’s History Month all through March with a string of TV series about extraordinary women. And while ...