The Second Duchess
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A dazzling tale of love sumptuous splendour and conspiracy in the Italian Renaissance court of Ferrara from the brilliant author of The Flower Reader. Barbara of Austria is plain quick-witted and sensible. She also desperately needs a husband for unmarried at twenty-six she is about to be packed off to a convent like her sisters before her. So it is that she seizes what seems to be her last chance - a proposal of marriage from Alfonso d'Este Duke of Ferrara Lucrezia Borgia's grandson clever handsome powerful - and widely believed to have murdered his first wife Lucrezia de Medici. Barbara goes...
A dazzling tale of love sumptuous splendour and conspiracy in the Italian Renaissance court of Ferrara from the brilliant author of The Flower Reader. Barbara of Austria is plain quick-witted and sensible. She also desperately needs a husband for unmarried at twenty-six she is about to be packed off to a convent like her sisters before her. So it is that she seizes what seems to be her last chance - a proposal of marriage from Alfonso d'Este Duke of Ferrara Lucrezia Borgia's grandson clever handsome powerful - and widely believed to have murdered his first wife Lucrezia de Medici. Barbara goes into her marriage clear-eyed fascinated by her dangerous enigmatic new husband - and increasingly - recklessly - driven to discover the truth about the death of his first duchess.