num_pages: 366
description: 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.
language: English
title: Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
titlecomplete: Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
characters: Lucrezia Borgia
genres: Historical, History, Italy, European History, Biography Memoir, Biography, 15th Century, 16th Century, Nonfiction, Medieval
ratings_count: 4627
publisher: Penguin Books