Sarah Bradford is a historian and biographer. 'Bradford's forte, ever since she was a history-mad girl, is thinking herself into other lives' Daily Telegraph
No other biography is likely to bring us closer to Lucrezia' Spectator 'Sarah Bradford writes with cool authority and her research in Italian archives is exemplary. But what was the truth behind her extraordinary existence - was she a monster of cruelty and deceit, or simply the pawn of her power-hungry father and brother? Daughter, sister, wife and mother, Lucrezia Borgia was surrounded by wealth, privilege and intrigue. In this definitive biography, a work of huge scholarship and erudition, Sarah Bradford gives a fascinating account of Lucrezia's life in all its colourful controversy. Long considered the most ruthless of Italian Renaissance noblewomen, her tarnished reputation has prevailed long since her own lifetime. Lucrezia Borgia - an infamous murderess or simply the victim of bad press? Lucrezia Borgia's name has echoed through history as a byword for evil - a poisoner who committed incest with her natural father, Pope Alexander VI, and with her brother, Cesare Borgia. Sarah Bradford's Lucrezia Bogia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy is the first biography of Lucrezia Borgia for over sixty years
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