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Fascinated by the young painter her father has hired to decorate the family chapel, Alessandra's love of art and her independent spirit will lead her into danger. Politics and passion in 15th century Florence.

In sixteenth-century Italy, sixteen-year-old Serafina is separated from her lover and sent by her father to live in the convent of Santa Caterina where she is befriended by Zuana, the convent's apothecary. Angry and determined to escape, Serafina challenges Zuana's world views an...

Santa Catarina, a convent near Venice, is home to over one hundred women in 1567. But with powerful forces for change raging outside the convent, and with the world of the women within threatened by a new arrival, passions, hysteria, and conflict will come to threaten their very ...

By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and inside the Church. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy as Alexander VI, he is defined not just by his wealth or ...

In the Name of the Family explores the House of Borgia's final years, in the company of a young diplomat named Niccolo?? Machiavelli-- adapted from book jacket.