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Author | : ELIZABETH. LEV |
Publisher | : Apollo |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2019-12-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781789546354 |
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Between her birth in 1463 as the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Milan, to her death in 1509 as a member of the powerful Medici family, Caterina Sforza's life crossed the firmament of Italy's High Renaissance like a shooting star. In her 46 years she bore eight children and buried three husbands. She was painted by Botticelli, slandered by Machiavelli, and feted by Pope Sixtus IV. She was celebrated as a warrior who fearlessly led her own troops into battle, and ruthlessly defended her city-state of Forli, but Caterina was eventually defeated, imprisoned and raped by Cesare Borgia. Remembered as the author of a recipe book that went through more than 100 editions, Caterina was honoured at her death as 'without a doubt the first lady of Italy'. Her youngest son would become - like her - a brilliant soldier and a national hero, and the next four generations of her descendants would include two Dukes of Tuscany, a queen of France, and a queen of England.
Author | : Sarah Bradford |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2005-11-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1101525347 |
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The very name Lucrezia Borgia conjures up everything that was sinister and corrupt about the Renaissance—incest, political assassination, papal sexual abuse, poisonous intrigue, unscrupulous power grabs. Yet, as bestselling biographer Sarah Bradford reveals in this breathtaking new portrait, the truth is far more fascinating than the myth. Neither a vicious monster nor a seductive pawn, Lucrezia Borgia was a shrewd, determined woman who used her beauty and intelligence to secure a key role in the political struggles of her day. Drawing from a trove of contemporary documents and fascinating firsthand accounts, Bradford brings to life the art, the pageantry, and the dangerous politics of the Renaissance world Lucrezia Borgia helped to create.
Author | : George Frederick Young |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Florence (Italy) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alison Brown |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2020-01-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 110848946X |
Download Piero de Medici and the Crisis of Renaissance Italy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Uses Piero de' Medici's life as a prism to throw new light on the crisis in Renaissance Italy that revolutionised culture and political thinking.
Author | : Stuart W. Pyhrr |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Armor |
ISBN | : 0870998722 |
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The re-creation of classically inspired armor is invariably associated with Filippo Negroli, the most innovative and celebrated of the renowned armorers of Milan.
Author | : Jeryldene M. Wood |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2020-06-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1476680477 |
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In April 1455, ten-year-old Ippolita Maria Sforza, a daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Milan, was betrothed to the seven-year-old crown prince of the Kingdom of Naples as a symbol of peace and reconciliation between the two rival states. This first full-scale biography of Ippolita Maria follows her life as it unfolds at the rival courts of Milan and Naples amid a cast of characters whose political intrigues too often provoked assassinations, insurrections, and wars. She was conscious of her duty to preserve peace despite the strains created by her husband's arrogance, her father-in-law's duplicity, and her Milanese brothers' contentiousness. The duchess's intelligence and charm calmed the habitual discord between her families, and in time, her diplomatic savvy and her great friendship with Lorenzo de' Medici of Florence made her a key player in the volatile politics of the peninsula for almost 20 years. Drawing on her letters and contemporary chronicles, memoirs, and texts, this biography offers a rare look into the private life of a Renaissance woman who attempted to preserve a sense of self while coping with a tempestuous marriage, dutifully giving birth to three children, and supervising a large household under trying political circumstances.
Author | : Elizabeth Lev |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0151012997 |
Download The Tigress of Forlì Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Colleen Carroll Campbell |
Publisher | : Image |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2012-10-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0770436501 |
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A poignant and powerful spiritual memoir about how the lives of the saints changed the life of a modern woman. In My Sisters the Saints, author Colleen Carroll Campbell blends her personal narrative of spiritual seeking, trials, stumbles, and breakthroughs with the stories of six women saints who profoundly changed her life: Teresa of Avila, Therese of Lisieux, Faustina of Poland, Edith Stein of Germany, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and Mary of Nazareth. Drawing upon the rich writings and examples of these extraordinary women, the author reveals Christianity's liberating power for women and the relevance of the saints to the lives of contemporary Christians.
Author | : George Weigel |
Publisher | : Constellation |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2013-10-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0465027695 |
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The annual Lenten pilgrimage to dozens of Rome’s most striking churches is a sacred tradition dating back almost two millennia, to the earliest days of Christianity. Along this historic spiritual pathway, today’s pilgrims confront the mysteries of the Christian faith through a program of biblical and early Christian readings amplified by some of the greatest art and architecture of western civilization. In Roman Pilgrimage, bestselling theologian and papal biographer George Weigel, art historian Elizabeth Lev, and photographer Stephen Weigel lead readers through this unique religious and aesthetic journey with magnificent photographs and revealing commentaries on the pilgrimage’s liturgies, art, and architecture. Through reflections on each day’s readings about faith and doubt, heroism and weakness, self-examination and conversion, sin and grace, Rome’s familiar sites take on a new resonance. And along that same historical path, typically unexplored treasures—artifacts of ancient history and hidden artistic wonders—appear in their original luster, revealing new dimensions of one of the world’s most intriguing and multi-layered cities. A compelling guide to the Eternal City, the Lenten Season, and the itinerary of conversion that is Christian life throughout the year, Roman Pilgrimage reminds readers that the imitation of Christ through faith, hope, and love is the template of all true discipleship, as the exquisite beauty of the Roman station churches invites reflection on the deepest truths of Christianity.
Author | : Rachele Mussolini |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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