**The most beautiful woman in Rome, Lucrezia Borgia, was born into a family--and a destiny--she could not hope to escape . . .** Fifteenth-century Rome: The Borgia family is on the rise. Lucrezia's father, Pope Alexander VI, places his illegitimate daughter and her only brothers, Cesare, Giovan
Lucrezia Borgia - 01 - Madonna of the Seven Hills: A Novel of the Borgias
โ Scribed by Jean Plaidy
- Publisher
- Broadway Books
- Year
- 1968;2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 319 KB
- Edition
- Unabridged
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0307887529
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โฆ Synopsis
About the Author
JEAN PLAIDY is the pen name of the prolific English author Eleanor Hibbert, also known as Victoria Holt. More than fourteen million copies of her books have been sold worldwide. Madonna of the Seven Hills is the first book in her two-book series of the Borgias. Look for the second novel, Light on Lucrezia, wherever books are sold.
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