From the reign of Henry VIII to the conquests of Genghis Khan to the exploits of Bloody Mary, history's worst bullies take “brutal” to the next level.
"I had determined to go as far as declaring in abstruse and puzzling utterances the future causes of the "common advent," even those truly cogent ones that I have foreseen. Yet lest whatever human changes...
Catherine de Medici played the game of thrones better than anyone in history—yet few people know this ruthless queen's dark history.
Diane de Poitiers was an infamous royal mistress—but one day in 1559, her golden life came crashing down in the most brutal way imaginable.
“What I have dreamed in an hour is worth more than what you have done in four.”—Lorenzo de’ Medici. The most well-known of the Medici family, which is saying something, Lorenzo de' Medici was a...
It’s wrong to cast Catherine de Medici (b. 1519-d. 1589) as just a Machiavellian matriarch whose ambition eclipsed her children’s happiness… but it’s equally wrong to paint her as a passive pawn of circumstance. Scandal...
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