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The Pope S Daughter - The Pope S Daughter - 9780195312010 - V9780195312010
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The Pope S Daughter

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Description for The Pope S Daughter The illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, Felice della Rovere became one of the most powerful and accomplished women of the Italian Renaissance. Now, Caroline Murphy vividly captures the untold story of a rare woman who moved with confidence through a world of popes and princes. Num Pages: 400 pages, 73 maps & halftones, 28 color illus. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 554.
The illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, Felice della Rovere became one of the most powerful and accomplished women of the Italian Renaissance. Now, Caroline Murphy vividly captures the untold story of a rare woman who moved with confidence through a world of popes and princes. Using a wide variety of sources, including Felice's personal correspondence, as well as diaries, account books, and chronicles of Renaissance Rome, Murphy skillfully weaves a compelling portrait of this remarkable woman. Felice della Rovere was to witness Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel, watch her father Pope Julius II lay the foundation stone for ... Read more

Product Details

Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195312010
SKU
V9780195312010
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About The Pope S Daughter
Caroline P. Murphy is a cultural historian and biographer who lives in Cambridge, Mass. She is the author of Lavinia Fontana: A Painter and Her Patrons in Sixteenth-Century Bologna and Murder of a Medici Princess.

Reviews for The Pope S Daughter
Murphy has recreated Felice della Rovere's life with agility and tact. She successfully fleshes out the customs and historical background of her Machiavellian princess.
Bruce Boucher, New York Times Book Review
One feels in reading this vivid biography that one has gotten to know a woman of energy and talent who became 'the most powerful woman in Rome ... Read more

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