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Leonie Frieda

Biography

Leonie Frieda

Leonie Frieda is the author of CATHERINE DE MEDICI: Renaissance, Queen of France, which was a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic and was translated into eight languages. She lives in London.

Leonie Frieda

Books by Leonie Frieda

The Deadly Sisterhood: A Story of Women, Power, and Intrigue in the Italian Renaissance, 1427-1527
by Leonie Frieda - Biography, History, Nonfiction

THE DEADLY SISTERHOOD is 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.