Edoardo Albinati rewrites Lorenzino de' Medici's apology for tyrannicide

Edoardo Albinati has published a new version of Lorenzino de' Medici's Apologia di un omicidio, part of the BUR series I grandi classici riscritti. The book recounts the assassination of Duke Alessandro de' Medici on the night before Epiphany 1537 in Florence, carried out by his cousin Lorenzino with the help of the hitman Scoronconcolo. Eleven years later, on February 26, 1548, Lorenzino was himself killed in Venice by two henchmen, Bebo da Volterra and Cecchino da Bibbona. The volume also includes the sixteenth chapter of Benedetto Varchi's Storia fiorentina and the account of Lorenzo de' Medici's death by Captain Francesco da Bibbona (Cecchino). The original texts are edited by Luca Degl'Innocenti.