LUCREZIA BORGIA: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy
Sarah Bradford, . . Viking, $27.95 (448pp) ISBN 978-0-670-03353-9
Lucrezia Borgia is legendary as the archetypal villainess who carried out the poisoning plotted by her scheming father—Pope Alexander VI, aka Rodrigo Borgia—and by her ruthlessly ambitious brother Cesare. The facts of Lucrezia's case are sorted out from fiction by Bradford's humanizing biography, which presents Lucrezia as an intelligent noblewoman, powerless to defy her family's patriarchal order, yet an enlightened ruler in her own right as Duchess of Ferrara. Drawing on extensive archival evidence, Bradford (
Reviewed on: 08/30/2004
Genre: Nonfiction
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