![]() ![]() Her youngest child became, like his mother, a brilliant soldier and a national hero. Caterina Sforza bore eight children, buried three husbands and wrote a recipe book that has since been through more than 100 editions. ![]() While defending her fortress city state of Forli, she was prepared to sacrifice her children rather than surrender, and she was eventually defeated, imprisoned and raped by a Borgia. She was painted by Botticelli, feted by Pope Sixtus IV, slandered by Macchiavelli and celebrated as a warrior who led her own troops fearlessly into battle. Xv, 316 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cmīetween her birth in 1463 as the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Milan, and her death in 1509 as a member of the powerful Medici family, the life of Caterina Sforza crossed the firmament of Renaissance Italy like a shooting star. ![]()
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