The Borgia Bride: A Novel

by Jeanne Kalogridis | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0312341385 Global Overview for this book
Registered by deadendmind of Athens - Αθήνα, Attica Greece on 12/14/2006
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Journal Entry 1 by deadendmind from Athens - Αθήνα, Attica Greece on Thursday, December 14, 2006
I bought this at a Christmas bazaar in order to release it. Available it is!

From Publishers Weekly:
"Against the backdrop of 15th-century Italian internecine feuds, debauchery and Vatican corruption, Kalogridis's latest historical novel (after The Burning Times) chronicles with compelling sweep the story of the ravishing and iron-willed Sancha de Aragon, princess of Naples. Illegitimate daughter to the coldhearted duke of Calabria (briefly king of Naples), she is used to establish ties to the feared and influential House of Borgia when her father betroths her to the younger scion, Jofre. Much to the dismay of her beloved younger brother Alfonso, Sancha is sent from Naples to rule with Prince Jofre in remote Squillace. War with the French will later briefly return her to Naples, but rumors of her beauty reach her lecherous father-in-law, Pope Alexander VI, who recalls her and Jofre to opulent Rome. There, she avoids the pope's advances—and her jealous sister-in-law Lucrezia's animosity—but falls into a steamy affair with her brother-in-law, the dashing Cesare, cardinal of Valencia. Cesare becomes furious when she refuses to leave Jofre, and he sets out on a warpath that includes her brother Alfonso, who has also married into the Borgia clan—to Lucrezia. Kalogridis spins a dramatic tale from a heady mix of royal power plays and passion."

Journal Entry 2 by deadendmind at Ponte Vecchio in Firenze, Toscana Italy on Friday, January 5, 2007

Released 17 yrs ago (1/5/2007 UTC) at Ponte Vecchio in Firenze, Toscana Italy

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My parents are on a trip in Florence and my mother released the book for me today. I hope it will be found and read!

Happy reading!

Journal Entry 3 by HMBR from Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia on Tuesday, February 20, 2007
I am an Australian grandmother who was visiting Florence for the first time. At around 2.30 pm on January 5 2007 I was standing on the very famous Ponte Vecchio in Florence.Taking in all the sights and sounds around me, I happened to look down and see the book sitting on the bridge. I couldn't believe that a book was just sitting there, particularly because of all the people around,it could have easily been knocked off the bridge and into the water. I picked the book up and realized it was written in English and was thrilled when I saw that it was a book crossing book!

This book came along just at the right time as I was feeling a bit homesick and my traveling companion was not the type of person I should not have agreed to travel with. I became totally absorbed in the book. What made the book come to life for me was that I had traveled through so many places mentioned and seen so much art work that depicted the times in which the story took place.

I was going to release the book and leave it on London Bridge. I didn't get around to doing so as I really wanted to register first. Now I am back from my big European and UK trip I plan to release the book in Melbourne. Seeming I found the book on a famous old bridge in Florence I am going to find a famous old bridge in Melbourne and leave The Borgia Bride where it can be safely found.

I am now reading Painting Mona Lisa by the same author and thoroughly enjoying it.

Thank-you to deadendmind you made my day!

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