Name: Lucrezia Borgia
Rating: 3.166666666666667 (3 reviews)

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.

Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy

Lucrezia Borgia

A sympathetic portrait of the infamous Renaissance woman discusses her origins as the illegitimate child of Pope Alexander VI, forced first marriage at the age of thirteen, increasing power over the course of two subsequent marriages, and shrewd choices in the face of the era's political struggles. By the author of America's Queen and Disraeli. Reprint.

Judy Hudgins

Makes watching "The Borgias" on TV more interesting. Was she a victim or was she really bad?

Lucrezia Borgia Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy

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