Sarah Bradford - Lucrezia Borgia. La storia vera

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    Lucrezia and her kin were close enough to corruption to become disenchanted, but she appears to have maintained a faith that grew as she got older. Even in her youth, she would retreat to the nearest convent and wait for awkward family conflicts to unknot themselves.

    How deep was her faith? Perhaps it operated as a sideways bet against damnation. Her third father-in-law collected nuns, preferably sisters who displayed stigmata, and his opposition to the marriage was mollified when Lucrezia helped him add to his collection.

    Despite all this potential colour, Lucrezia remains monochrome: a canny survivor, nobody's fool. It's hardly enough to justify this slab of biography. Sarah Bradford's study sticks to the personal: she isn't interested in economics or ideology. History, for her, is about people, which is why it is doubly disappointing that she's unable to make them live.

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