Aureliano Machado Machado থেকে Thatha Alia, Pakistan
It's rare to find a history book which is accepted by academia and interesting to the general public, but this is one of them. Martines is a well-respected authority on the Medici, so there's really no way that professors could turn their noses up at this book just because - gasp - it reads well and is exciting (although a few did). It is interesting to read his introduction, where he apologizes profusely for having written something so entertaining. I am in a weird profession. At any rate, this is the story of the Pazzi conspiracy against the Medici family, in which they tried to overthrow the Medici. The only complaint I have with this book is that there are no endnotes marked within the text, because apparently to see numbers in the text is too intimidating for "regular readers" - so you have to go through and painstakingly fill all of them in.