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The Pope's daughter / Dario Fo ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar.

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Europa Editions, 2015.

Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480-1519 -- Fiction.

Alexander VI, Pope, 1431-1503 -- Fiction.

Borgia family -- Fiction.

Nobility -- Italy -- Papal States -- Fiction.

Italy -- History -- 15th century -- Fiction.

Rome (Italy) -- Fiction.

9781609452742 (trade pbk.)

1609452747 (trade pbk.)

241 p., [2] p. of plates : color ill. ; 21 cm.

"Original title: La figlia del papa" -- Verso.

Translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar.

Includes bibliographical references (page 243).

Preamble -- Part One -- Part Two -- Bibliography -- About the author.

"Lucrezia Borgia is one of the most vilified figures in modern history. The daughter of a notorious pope, she was twice betrothed before the age of eleven and thrice married -- one husband was forced to declare himself impotent and thereby unfit and another was murdered by Lucrezia's own brother, Cesar Borgia. She is cast in the role of murderess, temptress, incestuous lover, loose woman, femme fatale par excellence. But there is always more than one version of a story. Lucrezia Borgia is the only woman in history to serve as the head of the Catholic Church. She successfully administered several of Renaissance Italy's most thriving cities, founded one of the world's first credit unions, and was a generous patron of the arts. She was mother to a prince and to a cardinal. She was a devoted wife to the Prince of Ferrara, and the lover of the poet Pietro Bembo. She was a child of the renaissance and in many ways the world's first modern woman."--Cover flap.

Historical fiction.

Biographical fiction.

Italian fiction -- Translations into English.

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