The Deadly Sisterhood, (Paperback)

from lauriebrown54

Leonie Frieda has taken on the task of portraying women of power from the Italian Renaissance. It's a huge job, and, while she has meticulously researched the project, it falls a bit short. Renaissance Italy was very different from the Italy of today. It was a loose collection of states ruled by ...

from Jaylia3

An unwieldy cast of characters drifts in and out of this book's chapters making it hard to keep track of them all, but that didn't stop me from enjoying the book once I adopted a more relaxed attitude. It's packed with 100 years of turbulent history told through up close and personal accounts of ...