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

Author: Sarah Bradford Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Biographies, Non Fiction, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780143035954 0143035959

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. Similar books: The Pope's Daughter by Caroline P. Murphy The Life and Times of Lucrezia Borgia by Maria Bellonci The Borgias by G. J. Meyer The Life of Cesare Borgia by Rafael Sabatini Cesare Borgia by Sarah Bradford America's Queen by Sarah Bradford The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519 by Christopher Hibbert The Tigress of Forli by Elizabeth Lev Magnifico by Miles J. Unger Mistress of the Vatican by Eleanor Herman Lucia by Andrea Di Robilant Murder of a Medici Princess by Caroline P. Murphy The Medici by Paul Strathern The Cardinal's Hat by Mary Hollingsworth Nelson and Emma by Roger Hudson The Richest Woman in America by Janet Wallach Bess of Hardwick by Mary S. Lovell Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans by Brian Kilmeade Victoria by Julia Baird Georgiana by Amanda Foreman