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Lucrezia Borgia : life, love and death in Renaissance Italy

Lucrezia Borgia's name has echoed through history as a byword for evil - a poisoner who committed incest with her natural father, Pope Alexander VI, and with her brother, Cesare Borgia. Long considered the most ruthless of Italian Renaissance noblewomen, her tarnished reputation has prevailed long since her own lifetime. This text tells her story.
eBook, English, 2005, ©2004
Penguin, London, 2005, ©2004