The Tigress of Forli: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de' Medici
by:
Elizabeth Lev (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009SRQJJW
Publish date: October 18th 2011
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Politics,
Biography Memoir,
Womens,
Italian Literature,
European History,
15th Century
"Se io potessi scrivere tutto, farei stupire il mondo" (If I could write everything, I would shock the world). -- Caterina Sforza to a monk during the last decade of her life.A superbly researched biography of an extraordinary woman we don't hear enough about except her connection to the Borgias. He...
The Tigress of Forli covers the life and death of one of the most fascinating women of the Renaissance. While Ms. Lev strives to present as impartial a picture of Caterina as possible, citing both the negative and positive depictions and rumors that occurred both during her life and well after her d...
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