Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy

Unfortunately, the concocted scandals and torrid (false) rumors about the life and character of Lucrezia are FAR MORE INTERESTING that the reality described in this book. The book certainly seems accurate, the author meticulous in details, but what boring details they are. Hour upon hour of the comings and goings and correspondence of everyday life of minor renaissance Italian nobility. Shopping lists, meals, marriages, petty squabbles between women, pointless personal vendettas between men, etc. Yes, she was the pope's daughter, and a pawn in his political maneuvers, but so was every other daughter of nobility. If anything, the book is a very clear window into the lives of nobles of the time, but nothing about Lucrezia herself is particularly noteworthy.