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The flame of the Borgias 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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Pietro Bembo, poet, scholar, Vene-
tian nobleman, held all members of
the family of Borgia to be degenerate
and dangerous, and Madonna Lucre-
zia, Ducbess of Ferrara, to be among
the worst of them. Then when he met
her, her beauty flickering like an un-
certain candle flame, her hair like
amber against the milky white of her
neck and shoulders, he knew that he
was wrong, that she was nothing like
the debauched and murderous harpy
whom the gossips portrayed. They
met again, they loved, though it could
not last--the dangers were too great,
the calls of the world too exigent and
too obtrusive--hut for three brief
years the love of Pietro and Lucrezia
was one of the idylls of the age.
Jean Briggs tells their story against
the rich background of sixteenth-
century Venice and Ferrara. It is a
world which she has studied deeply
and describes with authority. The life
of the palaces and of the counting-
houses ; Carlo Bembo buying his gold
thread in Constantinople to trade for
English cloth and pewter; Raffaello
Sanzio excitedly sketching his plans
for a cardinal s bathroom in the Vati-
can; the beauty and brutality, courtly
romance and ruthless savagery: all
the great panorama Of Renaissance
Italy is painted with artistry and fire.
A literate and fascinating historical
novel by a new writer.
The flame of the Borgias 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书