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Mirror Mirror
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Mirror Mirror - A ThrillerMirror Mirror - A Thriller

The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives perched high above the rolling hills and valleys of Tuscany and Umbria at Montefiore, the farm of her beloved father, Don Vicente. One day a noble entourage makes its way up the winding slopes to the farm—and the world comes to Montefiore. In the presence of Cesare Borgia and his sister, the lovely and vain Lucrezia—decadent children of a wicked pope—no one can claim innocence for very long. When Borgia sends Don Vicente on a year's quest to reclaim a relic of the original Tree of Knowledge, he leaves Bianca under the care, so to speak, of Lucrezia.


 
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Tags: Vicente, Lucrezia, Borgia, Montefiore, Mirror, Bianca
The Borgias
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The BorgiasThe Borgias

The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven papal offspring also rose to power and fame - Lucrezia Borgia, his daughter, whose husband was famously murdered by her brother, and that brother, Cesare, who served as the model for Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince.
 
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Tags: Borgia, brother, daughter, whose, husband, Borgias
Madonna of the Seven Hills
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Madonna of the Seven HillsMadonna of the Seven Hills

This is the story of Lucrezia Borgia, born into history's most notorious family. Her father, who became Pope Alexander VI, was known as the 'most carnal man of his age'.
Growing from childhood into beautiful womanhood, Lucrezia becomes aware of that destiny from which, as a Borgia, she could not hope to escape...
 
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Tags: Borgia, Lucrezia, destiny, aware, womanhood, Madonna, Seven, Hills
Lucrezia Borgia - Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy
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Lucrezia Borgia - Life, Love and Death in Renaissance ItalyLucrezia Borgia - Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy

Lucrezia Borgia is legendary as the archetypal villainess who carried out the poisoning plotted by her scheming father—Pope Alexander VI, aka Rodrigo Borgia—and by her ruthlessly ambitious brother Cesare. The facts of Lucrezia's case are sorted out from fiction by Bradford's humanizing biography, which presents Lucrezia as an intelligent noblewoman, powerless to defy her family's patriarchal order, yet an enlightened ruler in her own right as Duchess of Ferrara.
 
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Tags: Lucrezia, Borgia, powerless, noblewoman, family, Italy, Renaissance, Death