<p>From Leonie Frieda, critically acclaimed biographer of Catherine de Medici, comes <em>The Deadly Sisterhood</em>: 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.</p><p>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. </p><p>With riveting narrative, Leonie Frieda’s <em>The Deadly Sisterhood: A Story of Women, Power, and Intrigue in the Italian Renaissance, 1427–1527 </em>brings to life a long-gone era filled with intrigue, corruption, and passion.</p>