Author: Cecelia Holland
Year: 1979
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Historical fiction
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9780446915175
0446915173 |
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"Rome at the turn of the 16th century - a city of opulence, violence, intrigue, and lust - the worldly and decadent "City of God." This is the Rome of the Borgias, where Pope Alexander VI holds court with his mistress, the divine Giulia, at his side; where his daughter Lucrezia, twice-widowed at the age of twenty, consoles herself (it is said) in her brother's arms; where the once lovely and powerful Caterina Sforza now keeps company with rats in the putrid dungeons of the Sant ' Angelo, awaiting her freedom --- or the garrotte...."
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