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MADONNA OF THE SEVEN HILLS By: Jean Plaidy
Broadway
January 2011
On Sale: January 18, 2011
Featuring: Lucrezia Borgia
320 pages ISBN: 0307887529 EAN: 9780307887528 Trade Size (reprint)
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Historical
The most beautiful woman in Rome, Lucrezia Borgia, was born into a familyβand a destinyβshe could not hope to escape . . .
Fifteenth-century Rome: The Borgia family is on the rise. Lucreziaβs father, Pope Alexander VI, places his illegitimate daughter and her only brothers, Cesare, Giovanni, and Goffredo, in the jeweled splendorβand scandalβof his court. From the Popeβs affairs with adolescent girls to Cesareβs dangerous jealousy of anyone who inspires Lucreziaβs affections to the ominous birth of a child conceived in secret, no Borgia can elude infamy. Young Lucrezia gradually accepts her fate as she comes to terms with the delicate nature of her relationships with her father and brothers. The unbreakable bond she shares with them both exhilarates and terrifies her as her innocence begins to fade. Soon she will understand that her familyβs love pales next to their quest for power and that she herself is the greatest tool in their political arsenal. From the inimitable pen of Jean Plaidy, this familyβs epic legend is replete with passion, intrigue, and murderβand itβs only the beginning.
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