Lucrezia Borgia

Um 1874 entstand Gregorovius' Monographie über Lucrezia Borgia, welche die Geschichte der Tochter Alexander's VI., der "Kleopatra des 15. Jahrhunderts", von dem Romanhaften befreite, das ihr bis dahin angehaftet hatte. Zugleich ist die Schrift durch die eingeflochtenen Beschreibungen des damaligen Lebens in Rom und am päpstlichen Hofe, der Festlichkeiten aller Art und andere Details ein überaus glanzvolles, farbenprächtiges Kulturbild der Renaissance geworden.

Um 1874 entstand Gregorovius' Monographie über Lucrezia Borgia, welche die Geschichte der Tochter Alexander's VI., der "Kleopatra des 15. Jahrhunderts", von dem Romanhaften befreite, das ihr bis dahin angehaftet hatte. Zugleich ist die Schrift durch die eingeflochtenen Beschreibungen des damaligen Lebens in Rom und am päpstlichen Hofe, der Festlichkeiten aller Art und andere Details ein überaus glanzvolles, farbenprächtiges Kulturbild der Renaissance geworden.

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.

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.