The book by Sarah Bradford, Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy, is the first biography of Lucrezia Borgia in more than sixty years. Lucrezia Borgia—a notorious murderer or merely the victim of bad publicity? The name of Lucrezia Borgia echoes throughout history as synonymous with evil—a poisoner allegedly committing incest with her biological father, Pope Alexander VI, and her brother, Cesare Borgia. Long regarded as the most inhumane of the noblewomen of the Italian Renaissance, her damaging reputation has persisted long after her death. In this definitive biography, a work of great academic infrastructure and research, Sarah Bradford provides a compelling look back at Lucrezia's life with all its colorful contradictions. Daughter, sister, wife, and mother, Lucrezia Borgia was surrounded by wealth, privilege, and intrigue. But what was the truth behind her extraordinary existence—was she a monster of cruelty and deception or simply the pawn of a power-hungry father and brother? Sarah Bradford writes with cold authority and her research in the Italian archives is exemplary. The Spectator states: “No other biography is likely to bring us closer to Lucrezia.” Bradford has the ability to think herself into other lives, as mentioned in the Daily Telegraph. Her credits include books such as Cesare Borgia (1976), Disraeli (1982), winner of the New York Times Book of the Year, Princess Grace (1984), Sacherevell Sitwell (1993), Elizabeth: A Biography of Her Majesty the Queen (1996), America’s Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (2000), Lucrezia Borgia (2005), and Diana (2007). She often appears on television as an expert on her biographical subjects and as a commentator on significant royal events. She is currently working on a full biography of Queen Victoria.