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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy

By Sarah Bradford

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books
Year
2005
ISBN
0143035959, 9780143035954
Google Books ID
Y71MlroFXgkC
Open Library ID
OL7361545M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2132498 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

The very name Lucrezia Borgia conjures up everything that was sinister and corrupt about the Renaissance—incest, political assassination, papal sexual abuse, poisonous intrigue, unscrupulous power grabs. Yet, as bestselling biographer Sarah Bradford reveals in this breathtaking new portrait, the truth is far more fascinating than the myth. Neither a vicious monster nor a seductive pawn, Lucrezia Borgia was a shrewd, determined woman who used her beauty and intelligence to secure a key role in the political struggles of her day. Drawing from a trove of contemporary documents and fascinating firsthand accounts, Bradford brings to life the art, the pageantry, and the dangerous politics of the Renaissance world Lucrezia Borgia helped to create.

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