I Read Stories: Lucretia's Legacy by Sarah Stockton
Stockton gives voice to a lament of Lucretia Borgia, forced into a role she never asked for, excelling at it and condemned by history for it. Although somewhat inaccurate in detail (she did not, in fact, marry seven or eight times), it cuts to the heart of the matter of this renaissance woman in a way that true history rarely does.
Read This: For a blindingly powerful reinvention of Lucretia Borgia
Don’t Read This: If all you want is to know the facts of the history and not how it might have felt
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