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SYNOPSIS: Embraced not only by readers worldwide, but by Italy’s most respected art historians and critics, Leonardo's Swans
At the heart of Leonardo's Swans
While initially thrilled by her marriage to the future Marquis of Mantua, Isabella’s happiness turns to jealousy when Beatrice is married off to the infinitely more powerful Ludovico Sforza—the future Duke of Milan. Though he is her sister’s husband, this playboy and powerbroker fascinates the young Isabella. He also holds the key to her life ambition—to be immortalized in oil by the great Leonardo da Vinci. Underestimating Beatrice’s will for supremacy, Isabella embarks on a plan to seduce Ludovico. As Europe begins to crumble around them, the sisters find themselves in a desperate game, caught between familial loyalty and a perilous battle for power.
Leonardo's Swans
In her research, Essex traversed northern Italy, visiting Ferrara, where the sisters were born, as well as Milan and Mantua, where Beatrice and Isabella reigned, and the lesser known rural “pleasure palaces” of the royals. Essex poured through the sisters’ personal correspondence as well as hundreds of accounts of court life in the Renaissance. Her evocative and accurate portrait the era prompted Italy’s premier art historian, Vittorio Sgarbi, to lavishly praise the book and already has inspired many teachers to use the book in their classes.
As in her acclaimed biographical novels, Kleopatra and Pharaoh
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