Love and Death in Renaissance Italy.(Lucrezia Borgia Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy)(Book Review)

Love and Death in Renaissance Italy Thomas V. Cohen University of Chicago Press 287pp 19.50 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0 226 11258 6

Lucrezia Borgia Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy Sarah Bradford Viking 411pp 25 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0 670 91345 6

TURBULENT, COLOURFUL, MURDEROUS, LYRICAL--the people who lived in Renaissance Italy were all of these. Is it possible to transport a modern reader back to their times, and see and bear--and even smell-them? Thomas Cohen does just that for the ordinary people, Sarah Bradford for the princely courts.

Cohen weaves ...

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