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Lucrezia Borgia - Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy by Sarah Bradford |
Not, after all, the monster of popular legend . . . Despite her inauspicious start - daughter of infamous Alexander VI and sister of the truly monstrous Cesare - it turns out she spent most of her adult life competently ruling Ferrara while her husband went warring. Bradford's exemplary research brings Renaissance Italy and Lucrezia herself vividly alive (gosh, the feasts and clothes!) and never mind if one occasionally loses track of the vast dramatis personae and complicated history.
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 40 June 2007 ) |
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