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Blood & Beauty by Sarah Dunant
28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched only by its brutality and corruption. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy, he is defined not just by his wealth, charisma and power, but by his blood: a Spanish Pope in a city run by Italians. If he ...Show more
Blood and Beauty by Sarah Dunant
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
This is a pre-read / used book. Fair condition. Well read. some yellowing and foxing to pages. Acclaimed novelist of the Italian Renaissance Sarah Dunant now takes on the era's most infamous family: the Borgias. By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by its ...Show more
In The Name of the Family by Sarah Dunant
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In the Name of the Family - as Blood and Beauty did before - holds up a mirror to a turbulent moment of history, sweeping aside the myths to bring alive the real Borgia family; complicated, brutal, passionate and glorious. Here is a thrilling exploration of the House of Borgia's doomed years, in the com ...Show more
In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
With their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed, the courtesan Fiammetta and her companion dwarf Bucino escape the sack of Rome. It's 1527. They head for the shimmering, decadent city of Venice. Sarah Dunant's epic novel of sixteenth-century Renaissance Italy is a story about the sins of ...Show more
In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
31.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
1527. While the Papal city of Rome burns - brutally sacked by an invading army including Protestant heretics - two of her most interesting and wily citizens slip away, their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed as the enemy breaks down their doors. Though almost as damaged as their belove ...Show more
In the Name of the Family by Sarah Dunant
38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
1502 and Renaissance Italy is in turmoil. Backed by the money and wily power of his ageing father Pope Alexander VI, Cesare Borgia is soaring like a military comet, carving out a state for the Borgia dynasty. From Florence, a young diplomat, one Niccolo Machiavelli, is sent to shadow him to keep track o ...Show more
Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant
28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
1570 in the Italian city of Ferrara. Sixteen-year-old Serafina is fipped by her family from an illicit love affair and forced into the convent of Santa Caterina, renowned for its superb music. Serafina's one weapon is her glorious voice, but she refuses to sing. Madonna Chiara, an abbess as fluent in po ...Show more
The Birth Of Venus by Sarah Dunant
28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Alessandra is not quite fifteen when her prosperous merchant father brings a young painter back with him from Holland to adorn the walls of the new family chapel. She is fascinated by his talents and envious of his abilities and opportunities to paint to the glory of God. Soon her love of art and her li ...Show more
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