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From Leonie Frieda critically acclaimed biographer of Catherine de Medici comes The Deadly Sisterhood: an epic tale of eight women whose lives—marked by fortune and poverty power and powerlessness—encompass the spectacle opportunity and depravity of Italy’s Renaissance.Lucrezia Turnabuoni Clarice Orsini Beatrice d’Este Isabella d’Este Caterina Sforza Giulia Farnese Isabella d’Aragona and Lucrezia Borgia shared the riches of their birthright: wealth political influence and friendship but none were not exempt from personal tragedies exile and poverty.  With riveting narrative Leonie Frieda’s The Deadly Sisterhood: A Story of Women Power and Intrigue in the Italian Renaissance 1427–1527 brings to life a long-gone era filled with intrigue corruption and passion.