About the book: 2023 / The fate of the Florentine Maria Medici (1575–1642) is full of amazing ups and downs. The desire for power fought in her with maternal duty and the honor of a queen. She had to go through turbulent times: as the wife of Henry IV of Bourbon and queen regent for her young son Louis XIII, she ended her life alone and in poverty, moving from one country to another, becoming a hostage to her own son and unable to resist his claims to independence reign...How fair it is that her image stands apart in comparison with other outstanding women of history is for the reader to judge. But we should not forget that France owes the Luxembourg Palace, the collection of paintings by Rubens in the Louvre and, finally, high-quality plumbing in Paris to Marie de Medici... The book may be of interest to a wide range of readers.