Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance ItalyPenguin, 1 nov. 2005 - 464 pages 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. |
Table des matières
Countess of Pesaro | |
The Borgias Renascent | |
The Tragic Duchess of Bisceglie | |
The Heavens Conspire | |
The Dark Marquis | |
Duchess of Ferrara | |
The Congiura | |
Horrors and Tears | |
The Years of War 1509 12 | |
Lucrezia Triumphant | |
The Last Year of Tranquillity | |
Turning Point | |
Farewell to Rome | |
PART TWO Duchess of Ferrara 1502 19 | |
The Road to Ferrara | |
A New Life | |
The | |
Bibliography | |
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