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Article: The less bad Borgia; Compared with the rest of her clan, Lucrezia was really pretty harmless.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 11, 2004
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Byline: ROY STRONG
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy by Sarah Bradford (Viking, [pounds sterling]25)
TO MISQUOTE Ogden Nash: "How would you like to be up a dark alley with Lucrezia Borgia coming towargia." Well, a bit more so after reading Sarah Bradford's fine biography.
No other family has gone down in history as the living epitome of lust, perversion, violence and crime on quite such a scale. To evoke them in contemporary terms you would have to think of something akin to a cross between the Kray brothers and the Beckhams, for the Borgias had their Hello!
magazine side. They revelled in public spectacle and ...