by John Julius Norwich · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781473632981
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«Four Princes» is a historical essay by John Julius Norwich, published in paperback by Hodder & Stoughton in 2017 (304 pages, in English).
John Julius Norwich interweaves the lives of four sixteenth-century sovereigns: Henry VIII of England, Francis I of France, Charles V and Suleiman the Magnificent. Their ambitions, alliances and rivalries, framed between the Renaissance and the Reformation, explain modern Europe, with episodes such as the Field of the Cloth of Gold and Suleiman's campaigns.
The original subtitle is «Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions That Forged Modern Europe».
For those interested in sixteenth-century European history, the Renaissance and biographies of great monarchs.
John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich,, also known as John Julius Norwich, was an English popular historian, writer of widely read travel books, and television personality.
