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Lucrezia Borgia: Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy

by Sarah Bradford

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Lucrezia Borgia beyond the legend

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Lucrezia Borgia beyond the legend

Sarah Bradford’s biography places Lucrezia Borgia within the political struggles of Renaissance Italy, where family power and public reputation were closely entangled. It sets the notorious image attached to her name against a portrait of a woman acting within the politics of her day. Contemporary documents and firsthand accounts provide the stated basis for Bradford’s account, which also takes in Renaissance art and pageantry. The book therefore connects an individual life with the political and cultural world surrounding it, while examining how the legend of Lucrezia compares with the biography’s presentation of her role.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in biographies of historical women
  • Those exploring Renaissance Italy and its political history
  • Readers interested in historical reputation and contemporary accounts

Themes

Historical reputation and mythWomen and political powerRenaissance ItalyArt and pageantryContemporary historical sources

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Book overview

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.

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