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Title: Frederick II of Hohenstaufen: A Life by Georgina Masson ISBN: 0-374-95297-3 Publisher: Octagon Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1973 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $24.00

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Comment: Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Sicily and later King of Jerusalem, was the son of a diplomatic marriage between the brutal Emperor Henry VI and the Sicilian Queen Constance. Since both parents died in his early youth, he was raised as a virtual adopted child of the Papacy and thus expected to be a pliant servant of Rome. Not so- Frederick turned into one of the medieval era's most brilliant players, wholly independent of church influence (and thought by many to be atheistic to boot). Crusader, diplomat, philosopher, linguist, artist, poet and scientist; nominally of German stock but, in essence, a Sicilian. Italy of the early thirteenth century is a a radically alien environment to any reader unfamiliar with medieval history, and Masson not only guides us through this strange world; she makes it seem that Frederick himself belongs more to our era than he did to his own.