Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy Paperback - 2005
by Sarah Bradford
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.
Summary
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.
First line
At the time of Lucrezia Borgia's birth in 1480, Italy was famously a geographical expression rather than a country, a peninsula divided into independent states bound by the weakest sense of common nationality.
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- Title Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
- Author Sarah Bradford
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2005-11-01
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780143035954 / 0143035959
- Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.38 x 5.58 x 0.98 in (21.29 x 14.17 x 2.49 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 15th Century
- Chronological Period: 16th Century
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Italy - History - 1492-1559, Borgia, Lucrezia
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Media reviews
"A lively view of Lucrezia, capturing the glamour and tragedy of her story." —The Wall Street Journal
"This is also a tender and intimate account of a misunderstood and passionate woman." —Elle
Citations
- Ingram Advance, 11/01/2005, Page 45
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