Lucrezia Borgia Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy

Name: Lucrezia Borgia Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
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ISBN: 9780143035954

ISBN-10: 0143035959

ISBN-13: 9780143035954

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Authors: Sarah Bradford

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The very name Lucrezia Borgia conjures up everything that was sinister and corrupt about the Renaissanceincest, 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…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.44" wide x 8.44" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Sarah Bradford is a historian & biographer. She is the best-selling author of several biographies including "Disraeli," selected as a "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year; "George VI," "Prince Grace," & "The New York Times" bestseller "Elizabeth."



Author's Note


List of Illustrations


Maps


Genealogical Tables showing the Borgia, Este and Aragona Families


Acknowledgements


Foreword


The Scene


Cast of Principal Characters



The Pope's Daughter 1480-1501



The Pope's Daughter



Countess of Pesaro



The Borgias Renascent



The Tragic Duchess of Bisceglie



Turning Point



Farewell to Rome



Duchess of Ferrara 1502-19



The Road to Ferrara



A New Life



The Heavens Conspire



The Dark Marquis



Duchess of Ferrara



The Congiura



'Horrors and Tears'



The Years of War, 1509-12



Lucrezia Triumphant



The Last Year of Tranquillity



The End


Postscript


Archives


Source Notes


Bibliography