The Less Bad Borgia ; Compared with the Rest of Her Clan, Lucrezia Was Really Pretty Harmless

Evening Standard - London › October 11, 2004

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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy by Sarah Bradford (Viking, Pounds 25)

TO MISQUOTE Ogden Nash: "How would you like to be up a dark alley with Lucrezia Borgia coming towargia." Well, a bit more so after reading Sarah Bradford's fine biography.

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The Less Bad Borgia ; Compared with the Rest of Her Clan, Lucrezia Was Really Pretty Harmless

No other family has gone down in history as the living epitome of lust, perversion, violence and crime on quite such a scale. To evoke them in contemporary terms you ...

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