The
Tigress of Forli: Renaissance Italy’s Most
Courageous and Notorious Countess: Caterina
Riario Sforza De’ Medici by Elizabeth Lev is my latest read.
I
watched the TV series, The Borgias, and it made me seek out more about
some of the characters of that period. Caterina De’ Medici is one of them. One
of the things that interested me is that she came close to stopping the
excesses of the Borgia Pope.
Caterina
suffered the loss of three husbands but lead her people in peace and war, bore
children, showing and unexpected strength. In the end, she is imprisoned, but
she is released in time, spending the rest of her life preparing her children
to be great.
The
work includes quotations from extant writing of Caterina – as well as other
figures of the time.
It
ends with notes, sources, and an index.
A
fascinating and very readable biography.
[This
review appears on my blog, Amazon.com, and Goodreads.com].
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