Mistress of the Vatican The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: the Secret Female Pope |
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Author:
| Herman, Eleanor |
ISBN: | 978-0-06-182741-9 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2009 |
Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers
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Imprint: | William Morrow & Company |
Book Format: | Ebook |
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Book Description:
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Eleanor Herman, the talented author of the New York Times bestselling Sex with Kings and Sex with the Queen goes behind the sacred doors of the Catholic Church in Mistress of the Vatican, a scintillating biography of a powerful yet little-known woman whose remarkable story is ripe with secrets, sex, passion, and ambition. For almost four centuries this astonishing story of a woman’s absolute power over the Vatican has been successfully buried—until now.
Eleanor Herman, the talented author of the New York Times bestselling Sex with Kings and Sex with the Queen goes behind the sacred doors of the Catholic Church in Mistress of the Vatican, a scintillating biography of a powerful yet little-known woman whose remarkable story is ripe with secrets, sex, passion, and ambition. For almost four centuries this astonishing story of a woman’s absolute power over the Vatican has been successfully buried—until now.