The Tigress of Forli Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de' Medici |
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| Author:
| Lev, Elizabeth |
| ISBN: | 978-1-299-88423-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2011 |
| Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $14.95 |
Book Description:
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A Rome-based American historian tells the extraordinary story of Caterina Sforza, perhaps the most prominent woman of Renaissance Italy, who was a wife, a mother, a leader, and a warrior with the courage to battle a Borgia pope, the charm to beguile a Medici husband, and the fierceness to make Machiavelli himself wince.
A Rome-based American historian tells the extraordinary story of Caterina Sforza, perhaps the most prominent woman of Renaissance Italy, who was a wife, a mother, a leader, and a warrior with the courage to battle a Borgia pope, the charm to beguile a Medici husband, and the fierceness to make Machiavelli himself wince.