Ballantine
February 2016
On Sale: February 9, 2016
388 pages ISBN: 0345533976 EAN: 9780345533975 Kindle: B00XSSMKC2 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
For fans of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir, bestselling
author C. W. Gortner effortlessly weaves history and drama
in this captivating novel about one of the world’s most
notorious families. Glamorous and predatory, the Borgias
fascinated and terrorized fifteenth-century Renaissance
Italy, and Lucrezia Borgia, beloved daughter of the pope,
was at the center of the dynasty’s ambitions. Slandered as a
heartless seductress who lured men to their doom, was she in
fact the villainess of legend, or was she trapped in a
familial web, forced to choose between loyalty and survival?
With the ascension of the Spaniard Rodrigo Borgia as Pope
Alexander VI, a new era has dawned in Rome. Benefitting from
their father’s elevation are the new pope’s illegitimate
children—his rival sons, Cesare and Juan, and beautiful
young daughter Lucrezia—each of whom assumes an exalted
position in the papal court. Privileged and adored, Lucrezia
yearns to escape her childhood and play a part in her
family’s fortunes. But Rome is seductive and dangerous:
Alliances shift at a moment’s notice as Italy’s ruling
dynasties strive to keep rivals at bay. As Lucrezia’s father
faces challenges from all sides, the threat of a French
invasion forces him to marry her off to a powerful
adversary. But when she discovers the brutal truth behind
her alliance, Lucrezia is plunged into a perilous gambit
that will require all her wits, cunning, and guile. Escaping
her marriage offers the chance of happiness with a
passionate prince of Naples, yet as scandalous accusations
of murder and incest build against her, menacing those she
loves, Lucrezia must risk everything to overcome the lethal
fate imposed upon her by her Borgia blood.
Beautifully wrought, rich with fascinating historical
detail, The Vatican Princess is the first novel to describe
Lucrezia’s coming-of-age in her own voice. What results is a
dramatic, vivid tale set in an era of savagery and
unparalleled splendor, where enemies and allies can be one
and the same, and where loyalty to family can ultimately be
a curse.
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