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Description edit
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... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Lucrezia: Add a description of this character.
- Don Alfonso
- Cesare
- Ercole Strozzi
- Ferrara
- Alexander
- Isabella D'este
- Ippolito
- Francesco
- Di Prosperi
- Gian Luca Pozzi
- Ferrante
- Giulio
- Giovanni Borgia
- Pope
- Fabrizio Colonna
- Rodrigo Borgia
- Giovanni Sforza
- Orsini
- Juan Gandia
- Burchard
- Duke Ercole
- Cavalleri
- Angela Borgia
- Julius Ii
- Giuliano Della Rovere
- Alfonso Bisceglie
- Reggio
- Lorenzo Strozzi
- Nepi
- Sigismondo
- Barbara
- Alfonso D'este
- Rodrigo Bisceglie
- Valentino
- Lucretia
Setting & Locations edit
- Rome
- Gonzaga
- Venice
- Naples
- Italy
- Mantua
- Vatican
- Spain
- Bologna
- Sancia
- Urbino
- Borgias
- Modena
- Romagna
- Valencia
- Pesaro
- Belriguardo
- Castello
- Vannozza
- Orsino
- Bentivoglio
- Milan
- Sanudo
- Elisabetta
- Mfonso
- San Bernardino
- Comacchio
- Florence
- Spoleto
- England
- Perugia
- Imola
- Paris
- Palazzo Santa Maria In Portico
- Sala Grande
- Ostellato
- Europe
- Hungary
- Rimini
- Bassanello
- Medelana
- Caterina
- Ravenna
- Papal States
- Michelotto
- Cento
First Sentence edit
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.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Sarah Bradford (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Viking Pr
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0670033537
Page Count: 448
Publisher: Viking Pr
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0670033537
Page Count: 448
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 945.606092
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Europe › Italy › Renaissance
- Books › History › World › Renaissance
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Specific Groups › Women
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Historical
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