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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy | 
 enlarge | Author: Sarah Bradford
Publisher: Penguin
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 65497
Media: Paperback
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 1.2
ISBN: 014101413X
EAN: 9780141014135
ASIN: 014101413X
Publication Date: October 27, 2005
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 Leaden. December 17, 2007
Davywavy2
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this on the basis of the promise of new insights into the character and history of the much-reviled Lucrezia Borgia. Whether or not the re-writing of the popular stories about her actually appears in the book I really couldn't tell you, because after three or four chapters of leaden, unengaging prose I put it down and haven't picked it up again. You'd think it would be difficult to make one of the livelier women of one of the livelier periods of history dull, but after finding myself propping my eyelids open with matchsticks and struggling to reach the end of the page I realised that perhaps this book's most remarkable achievement was just that.
There are other books about the period - I bought Mary Hollingsworth's "The Cardinal's Hat" about Lucrezia's son, Ippolito d'Este at the same time, and that's really very good indeed - and so I suggest you skip this one and go straight to something readable.
More the story of the Borgia's Family than of Lucrezia January 9, 2007
Virgili Gabriella
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
the book is well written and full of details but unfortunatelly, not about Lucrezia Borgia herself (as I thought I would find) but about life in Italy during the Renaissance and especially under Pope Alexander VI. I was quite deceived. I was hoping to read details about Lucrezia own life and not the political period. This book is very much like another one called "The Borgias" in which is related the history of the 4 children of Alexander VI and the Pope's influence on them and on the politic of the time.
 a good read October 5, 2006
vimto88 (London)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this book and the style of the writer brings Lucretia's life into perspective with her insights into the thought processes which made Lucretia tick and how she managed to triumph over the machinations of her father and brother to use her as a pawn in their political games. The writer made the subject come alive and it was a great read
 A wasted opportunity December 14, 2005
E. A. N. Otway (france)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Yet another book about the Borgias, the Borgia men, that is. Masses of details about Cesare's dress sense and Alexander's power quest, but very little to inform us about Lucrezia herself. Surely she couldn't have been as vapid and dull as she is depicted in this book. If she was, how can we explain her notoriety, except through her connection to the male Borgias. In which case, why bother writing a book about her? Which explains why this book is much more to do with the politics and power struggles of the men concerned, and various events in Lucrezia's life are merely chronicled with little effort made to reveal the woman herself.
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