Charles the V, the Holy Roman Emperor, decides that Clement VII needs to be put in his place and Charles sends his soldiers to Rome to teach the Holy Father and his people a lesson. It is bad enough when Caterina's uncle lives in the palace but when he becomes the new pope, Clement VII, things get a lot worse. It is not easy being a Medici because many of the people in Florence hate the family and want to get rid of them. Both of Caterina's parents died when she was just an infant and now she is under the care of the Cardinal. The one person who does come to visit her is her aunt Clarissa, Caterina's dead father's sister. Her life is a lonely one for very few people come to visit her in the Medici Palace. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000 ISBN: 978-0152055882Ĭaterina de' Medici, or Duchessina as her family and friends call her, lives with her "uncle," Cardinal Giulio.
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