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Lucretia Borgia - an Exceptional and Notorious Woman of the Renaissance Papacy (Paperback)
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Lucretia Borgia - an Exceptional and Notorious Woman of the Renaissance Papacy (Paperback)
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Loot Price R550
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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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