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List Price: $1.75 | | Publisher: Fawcett
Salesrank: 1473327
Released: October 12, 1976 |
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| Used Price: $2.82 |
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| Media: Mass Market Paperback |
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Madonna of 7 Hills Reviews:
From the back cover 
2006-07-20 - The legendary Lucrezia Borgia did everything with a passionate intensity. She loved with a burning lust. She hated with a ruthless violence. There wasn't another woman in all of Rome who could rival her exquisite beauty - or her incredible power. As the only daughter of Pope Alexander VI, she was showered with every luxury and privilege. But being a Borgia also meant having a certainand inescapable responsibility to the family. Lucrezia learned early that she would never simply love and marry. A Borgia's destiny was always carefully arranged - and there wasn;t any way for Lucrezia to excape hers...
Fascinating portrait
2006-05-15 - For someone who does not have pre-conceived notions about Lucrezia Borgia, this is where you have to start. As always Jean Plaidy succeeds in giving us background and sympathy to understand this beautiful woman. The book starts at the beginning with Cardinal Borgia and Lucrezia'a mother and proceeds to paint a fascinating picture of the Borgia family. Their closeness and family feeling being mis-understood by everyone. It also sheds light on Ceasare and Giovanni, who are the focal point of Lucrezia's childhood, as well as Guilia and other important players. The first book (Madonna of the Seven Hills) leads up and concludes dramatically as Lucrezia is getting ready to receive her second bridegroom.
It would be helpful if... 
2003-11-05 - I haven't read this book. It would be helpful if someone who spoke both English and Spanish could translate the review preceding this one. I tried to translate it myself, and for what it's worth to those of you out there who'd like to read the reviews of this much beloved author, I think it says:
"This is the first part of the history of the life of Lucretia Borgia, which continues in (some other book with Lucretia in the title) by the same author. Lucretia lived during the Italian Renaissance, or the 15th and 16th centuries. She was the natural daughter (illegitimate) of Alexander VI. (I think the next part indicates that she was involved in an incestuous relationship with her father and brothers. I am NOT sure of that.) This is an interesting, serious tale of a time of licentiousness and corruption."
That's my best translation. I hope it helps someone; if it instead infuriates someone with my poor translation, please, by all means, translate it for us.
For those who don't know who Lucretia Borgia was, I will add that she was a Florentine woman from a rich banking family, widely believed to poison her enemies. She was a beautiful, manipulative, and cunning individual who has proven to be quite interesting in other books I've read about her, but she does tend to be rather mythologized.
Lucrecia Borgia - Parte I
2000-04-07 - Este libro es la primera parte de la historia de la vida Lucrecia Borgia, que continúa con "Luz sobre Lucrecia" de la misma autora. Lucrecia Borgia fue una mujer que vivió en la Italia Renacentista de los siglos XV y XVI. Hija natural del papá Alejandro VI, esta mujer sería tristemente recordada como envenenadora, asesina, y por mantener una supuesta relación incestuosa con su padre y hermanos. Es un relato interesante sobre la vida licenciosa de los Papas, en una época en donde el poder y la riqueza corrompían a cualquier persona.
