Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
Sarah Bradford's lively biography of Lucrezia Borgia (1480-1519) manages to somewhat rehabilitate this notorious "monster of cruelty and deceit" without depriving us of the lurid gossip that makes her so appealing. Thus, this biography is rife with reports of incest, assassination, sexual...
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Sarah Bradford's lively biography of Lucrezia Borgia (1480-1519) manages to somewhat rehabilitate this notorious "monster of cruelty and deceit" without depriving us of the lurid gossip that makes her so appealing. Thus, this biography is rife with reports of incest, assassination, sexual debauchery and abuse, poisonings, court intrigue, and palace cabal, yet Lucrezia emerges as a shrewd, determined, tragic woman -- not as an ogre.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143035954 (0143035959)
Publish date: November 1st 2005
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 366
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Historical Fiction,
Medieval,
Biography Memoir,
Womens,
European History,
15th Century
Interesting analysis of Lucrezia Borgia's life using mostly letters, her own and that of contemporaries. Unavoidably there is also a lot of information on her famous father, Pope Alexander, and her brother Cesare, but I was especially interested in her life with her last husband, as Duchess of Ferra...
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