[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

"Dictatorial, unscrupulous, calculating, and crafty... Moreover, being intensely superstitious, she surrounded herself with astrologers... Indeed her methods were so essentially egotistical as to border on cynicism... In a word she was a woman of the Renaissance, a disciple of Machiavelli..."

-- Catherine de Medici, From the Catholic Encyclopedia

[seoul62]

Perfect comparison, another one would be: Livia, the Grandmother in I Claudius, just as cunning and ruthless as Catherine de Medici./Just Asking - seoul62........