Lucrezia Borgia by Sarah Bradford
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 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.Sarah Bradford is a biographer and historian. Cesare Borgia, Disraeli, Princess Grace, George VI, Splendours and Miseries: A Life of SacheverellSitwell, Elizabeth, Her Majesty the Queen's Biography, America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Lucrezia Borgia are among her past works.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780143035954 |
| ISBN 10 | 0143035959 |
| Title | Lucrezia Borgia |
| Author | Sarah Bradford |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2005-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
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