The Borgia Autumn

Her name is shrouded in scandals. She was accused of depravity, incest, and bearing illegitimate children to her closest relatives. A cat has nine lives, but Lucrezia Borgia’s fate granted her two. And letters and diaries of her contemporaries paint for us an entirely different picture of her second life—not the shameless daughter of the Pope, but a beautiful and intelligent Duchess of Ferrara.

Who are you really, Lucrezia Borgia?

In this book there is not a word of fiction—only historical facts. It is about love and jealousy, the rivalry of two of the brightest women of the Renaissance, recipes of beauty and gastronomy of the Renaissance era, and the little secrets of Italian duchies and marquessates. In a human life, as in nature, there are several seasons. After the stormy and passionate spring, after the hot and bright summer, autumn once comes. The time of bell chimes in the fog, monotone rains, the sound of footsteps on tiled roofs. What could be more romantic than autumn?

Borgia autumn…