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Tigress of Forli

Author: ELIZABETH. LEV

Publisher: Apollo

Published: 2019-12-12

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9781789546354

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.

Lucrezia Borgia

Author: Sarah Bradford

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2005-11-01

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 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.

The Most Illustrious Ladies of the Italian Renaissance

Author: Christopher Hare

Publisher:

Published: 1904

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13:

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Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance

Author: Stuart W. Pyhrr

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 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.

Galileo Studies

Author: Alexandre Koyré

Publisher: Harvester Press

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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Origins of Renaissance Art

Author: Antonio Paolucci

Publisher: George Braziller Publishers

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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Instructive exposition and illustration of all three sets of doors at the baptistery, which were seminal in the development of Renaissance art. With excellent colour plates.

The Pollaiuolo Brothers

Author: Alison Wright

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13: 0300106254

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Painters, draftsmen, goldsmiths, sculptors, and designers, the Pollaiuolo brothers of fifteenth-century Florence produced some of the most beautiful works of the Italian Renaissance.

The Tigress of Forlì

Author: Elizabeth Lev

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 0151012997

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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.

Cesare Borgia

Author: Sarah Bradford

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2011-07-18

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 0241958768

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THE FULL STORY BEHIND THE BORGIAS, NOW A MAJOR TV DRAMA STARRING JEREMY IRONS 'Either Caesar or nothing' was the motto of Cesare Borgia, whose name has long been synonymous with evil. Almost five centuries have passed since his death, yet his reputation still casts a sinister shadow. He stands accused of treachery, cruelty, rape, incest and, especially, murder - assassination by poison, the deadly white powder concealed in the jewelled ring, or by the midnight band of bravos lurking in the alleys of Renaissance Rome. This classic book by acclaimed historian and biographer Sarah Bradford (author of Lucrezia Borgia and Diana), is the drama of a man of exceptional gifts and a driving lust for power. Cesare Borgia dared fortune for the highest goals and when fate turned against him he fell like Lucifer. Set against the brilliant backcloth of High Renaissance Italy, his life had the perfect proportions of a Greek tragedy.

My Sisters the Saints

Author: Colleen Carroll Campbell

Publisher: Image

Published: 2012-10-30

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 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.