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Book Title: Lucretia Borgia : an Exceptional and Notorious Woman of the Renaissance Papacy
Item Length: 8.5in.
Item Height: 0.9in.
Item Width: 5.5in.
Author: Ferdinand Gregorovius
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Women, Europe / Italy, Europe / Medieval
Publisher: Leonaur The Limited
Publication Year: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 19.1 Oz
Number of Pages: 316 Pages
