Lucrezia Borgia: Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: 11/01/2005
ISBN: 9780143035954
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.58w x 0.98d

Review Citations: Ingram Advance 11/01/2005 pg. 45