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The Cardinal's Hat: Money, Ambition, and Housekeeping in a Renaissance Court

By Mary , Hollingsworth

Book information

Publisher
The Overlook Press
Year
2012
ISBN
978-1-46830-385-8, 1505-58-212-1
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (5121193 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00

Description

The Cardinal's Hat is the fascinating story of how Ippolito d'Este, the second son of Lucretia Borgia, acquired the coveted cardinal's hat and became the Archbishop of Milan.Working with Ippolito's letters and ledgers, recently uncovered in an archive in Modena, Italy, Mary Hollingsworth has pieced together a fascinating and undeniably titillating tale of this Renaissance cardinal and his road to power and wealth in sixteenth century Europe. The ledgers document every aspect of Ippolito's comings and goings, and he comes to life out of the minutiae, as do the lives of his staff.

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