Sarah Dunant

The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God’s protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force....

It is 1502, and Rodrigo Borgia, a self-confessed womanizer and master of political corruption, is now on the papal throne as Alexander VI....

Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls....

By the end of the 15th century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and inside the Church....

My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor’s army blew a hole in the wall of God’s eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment....

Escaping the sack of Rome in 1527, the courtesan Fiammetta and her dwarf companion, Bucino, head for Venice....

Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls....

Alessandra must make crucial decisions about the shape of her adult life, as Florence itself must choose....

Rodrigo Borgia picks up his papal skirts and walks out on to the public balcony....

In the Name of the Family - as Blood and Beauty did before - holds up a mirror to a turbulent moment of history, sweeping aside the myths to bring alive the real Borgia family....

The year is 1527. While the Papal city of Rome burns, two of her most interesting and wily citizens slip away....

Året er 1492, og Alessandra er knap 15 år, da hendes far, en velstående klædehandler, tager en maler med hjem fra Nordeuropa. Maleren skal udsmykke...

While the Papal city of Rome burns, two of her most interesting and wily citizens slip away....

Alessandra is not quite fifteen when her prosperous father brings a young painter back from Holland....

Rom, im August 1492. Schon am frühen Morgen ächzt die Stadt unter der Gluthitze des Sommers. Der Lärm in der engen Gasse lässt Lucrezia...

Флоренция на пороге Реформации. Медичи теряют силу и доверие флорентийцев.

«В обществе куртизанки» - это яркий портрет одного из величайших городов мира в самый важный период его существования и, одновременно с этим, история о желании и обмане, грехе и величии, верности и дружбе.

Монастырь Санта-Катерина - пристанище дворянок, живущих под защитой Бога. Многим из них не хватило денег на хорошее приданое и замужество, и они были вынуждены пойти в монашки.

Året er 1527 og vi befinder os i renæssancens Italien. Her møder vi kurtisanen Fiametta og hendes trofaste ven og følgesvend dværgen Bucino. På...