Lucretia Borgia

an Exceptional and Notorious Woman of the Renaissance Papacy

Autor: Ferdinand Gregorovius

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A legend of beauty and seduction The very name of Lucrezia Borgia rem...

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Autor

Ferdinand Gregorovius

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2012

Pagini

316

EAN

9780857068088

ISBN

9780857068088

Enbook ID

07415742

Editura

Leonaur Ltd

Greutate

418

Dimensiuni

216 x 143 x 24

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A legend of beauty and seduction The very name of Lucrezia Borgia remains, some 500 years after her time, enough to send a frisson of a thrill down the spine-particularly of men! The Lucrezia of legend has become an archetypal 'femme fatale'-beautiful, seductive and potentially deadly. She was a member of the notorious Borgia family who under the ruthless Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander IV) presided over the period of the Renaissance Papacy. Of her brothers, Cesare, who bore a particularly bloody and ruthless reputation has become the most notorious and infamous. To add inevitable spice to their story, the two were said to have indulged in a torrid, incestuous affair. Fact often parts company with popular myth, but there is no doubt that Lucrezia, although actually illegitimate, was a beautiful, sophisticated and highly educated woman. She spoke five languages fluently. It was inevitable that a young woman of this background would become a political bargaining tool in the game of marriage and power. Indeed to further the Borgia family ambitions she was married three times. To what degree she participated in these machinations has, of course, become a matter of speculation and an essential component of this famous lady's allure. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.

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