The deadly sisterhood: a story of women, power, and intrigue in the Italian Renaissance, 1427-1527
2013, 1st US Edition. New York: HarperPerennial. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #347150
Physical description: xi, 403 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (chiefly color), map, genealogical tables; 21 cm. Contents: Prologue: She-wolf of the Romanga --
Part one: 1471-1484 --
Power from behind the veil -- The princess bride --
La Dame de Petit Sens --
Fair is foul and foul is fair --
Mistress of the revels in Rome -- The Virago holds the Holy City hostage --
Part two: 477-1503 --
from kissing cousins to killing cousins -- Queen mother of florence and the princess brides -- A wonderful family man --
Sibling rivalry -- Pandora's box -- The immaculate Duchess Lucrezia -- Fortunes child -- 'You are only a woman. I forgive you.' -- Caterina's loss, Lucrezia's gain -- Lucrezia and Isabella do battle --
Lucrezia's embarrassment -- Cesare's troubles -- The Duke of Romanga and the Borgia die out -- The Medici restored -- Lucrezia the Dutchess -- Saving face --
The last man standing. Subjects: Kings and rulers.
Women -- Intellectual life.
Women -- Renaissance. Isabella, -- d'Aragona, Duchess of Milan, consort of Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan, -- 1470-1524. Borgia, Lucrezia, -- 1480-1519.
Price: €18.95