A Night with Alessandro: An Episode in Florence Under Her Last Medici

Treadwell Cleveland, Jr's A Night with Alessandro: An Episode in Florence Under Her Last Medici is a compelling and emotional account of an American who becomes deeply enmeshed in Florentine life during the rise and fall of the last Medici dynasty. This was a time when Florence was fabled to be “The Athens of Italy,” and Alessandro de Medici ruled as a prince under the watchful eye of his formidable mother, Catherine de Medici. Alessandro was a brilliant young prince who had been groomed by his mother to become the greatest ruler Florence had ever known. He would have achieved his destiny if not for one fateful decision: granting asylum to Galileo Galilei.