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The tigress of Forlì : Renaissance Italy's most courageous and notorious countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de' Medici / Elizabeth Lev.
Van Pelt Library DG537.8.S3 L48 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lev, Elizabeth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sforza, Caterina, 1463-1509.
- Sforza, Caterina.
- Countesses--Italy--Forlì--Biography.
- Countesses.
- Renaissance--Italy--Biography.
- Renaissance.
- History.
- Forlì (Italy)--Biography.
- Forlì (Italy).
- Forlì (Italy)--History--Exhibitions.
- Italy--History--1492-1559--Biography.
- Italy.
- Italy--Forlì.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 316 pages, : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
- Summary:
- Pope Sixtus IV, Caterina's benefactor and uncle by marriage, who commissioned the Sistine Chapel frescoes in which she is immortalized
- Count Girolamo Riario, Caterina's first husband and an originator of the Pazzi conspiracy, whose corrupt ways led to their flight from Rome to Forli
- Niccolò Machiavelli, the Florentine political theorist who as a young diplomat was humiliated by Caterina and later took revenge with his pen
- Giacomo Feo, Caterina's secret second husband, a jumped-up family retainer whose assassination led to a bloodbath on the streets of Forlì
- Giovanni De' Meoici Il Popolano, Caterina's beloved third husband, who provided Caterina entrée into Florentine culture and society, and an heir worthy of her legacy
- Cesare Borgia, nephew to the ruthless Borgia pope Alexander VI, who would bring Caterina's rule to an end with unspeakable cruelty Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Christmas cannons
- The education of an Amazon
- Childhood's end
- The countess-in-waiting
- Triumphal parade to Rome
- Courtiers and conspiracies
- The Riario dynasty
- The fairest in the realm
- The birth of Athena
- The lean years
- Center stage
- The retort at Ravaldino
- The spoils of war
- Fanning the flames
- Blinded by love
- Avenging fury
- Intrigue and invasion
- Italy's idol
- The long night of Castel Sant' Angelo
- Sleep after toil
- Epilogue: Mantua 1526.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780151012992
- 0151012997
- OCLC:
- 666239957
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