by Stacy Schiff · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467246025
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«Cleopatra» is the biography of Cleopatra VII written by Stacy Schiff, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover, with 464 pages, in Spanish.
Stacy Schiff dismantles the legend of Cleopatra as a mere seductress and portrays the last queen of Egypt as a shrewd strategist, negotiator and ruler capable of commanding a fleet and putting down revolts. The work traces her rise to power, the dynastic struggles with her siblings and her alliances with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.
Originally published in English as «Cleopatra: A Life». This Spanish edition includes a translation by David Paradela López, bibliography and index.
Aimed at readers of ancient history, Ptolemaic Egypt and documented biographies.
Stacy Madeleine Schiff is an American writer. Her biography of Véra Nabokov won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography. Schiff has also written biographies of French aviator and author of The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, colonial American-era polymath and prime mover of America's founding, Benjamin Franklin, Franklin's fellow Founding Father Samuel Adams, ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra, and the important figures and events of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692–93 in colonial Massachusetts.
