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I forgot how much I really enjoy learning/reading about history. This was a true pleasure🤓🎧
CoverToCoverGirl A very bloody family history. 1d
DieAReader @CoverToCoverGirl 😬🔪Indeed! 1d
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pick#ReadAway2025 #Wardens2025
I forgot how much I really enjoy learning/reading about history. This was a true pleasure🤓🎧
pick(sings) That‘s nobody‘s business but the Turks…
pickThis was a very interesting book of the ris and fall of the Borgia dynasty, which started some time before Rodrigo and his infamous family. His uncle was already a pope, a fact which I was unaware of.
I have a whole day with no commitments! It‘s silent in my home, warm outside, the bees are busily collecting pollen from the garden & I‘m going to open this one from my ancient Goodreads TBR. Life is good today.
Daughter is helping me organize and add my new-to-me books to my database including this one.
I met this author last night, bought her book, and I‘m already 100 pages in and loving it! What a gem of a woman Stein is, and this medieval novel is keeping me entranced from the first page. I can‘t seem to put it down #medieval #renaissance #womenknights #feminine #bravewomenarenotfictional
pickIt answered my questions about Italy's state politics and why Martin Luther was adamant about breaking away from the depravity of the church. Lucretia was not written as part of the evil; she was a tool to further her father's powers. It was Cesare who was the ruthless murderer. #Jubilee #FoodandLit @texreader @catsandbooks
so-soI admit that I confused this family with the Borgia family. They were very similar, in fact, so I don't feel too foolish. They started as bankers in Florence. It seemed to me that every other generation was patrons to the arts, while the other generations were lazy and/or violent. The family was often fighting the papacy except when they had a son or nephew as a pope. I'm glad I read it. I learned more about Italy's history before unification.
