Sign-In
Cart
Caterina Sforza: Behind the walls of Forlì
Paperback
Historical FiguresItalian History
Currently unavailable to order
Please enter your email and a message will be sent to you when this product becomes available on our website.
ISBN13: 9798171263027
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Beautiful, cultivated, devout, vindictive, fiercely maternal and capable of a violence that startled even her contemporaries, Caterina Sforza refuses every simple definition. She belonged to a world in which blood created power, marriage secured territories, faith accompanied war, and a fortress could mean the difference between sovereignty and captivity.
Caterina Sforza: Behind the Walls of Forlì returns her to the city that shaped the most extraordinary years of her life. Beyond the celebrated episodes of defiance and the legends that transformed her into the Tigress of Forlì, this intimate historical portrait enters the streets, palaces, churches, convents and fortifications of Renaissance Forlì, with the formidable Rocca di Ravaldino always looming nearby.
Here is Caterina not only as ruler and warrior, but as daughter of the Sforza, wife, widow, lover and mother; as a woman attentive to beauty, medicine and the secrets of the body; as a patron of religious institutions and sacred art; as the implacable avenger of Giacomo Feo; and as a Catholic woman whose faith existed, without easy contradiction, beside ambition, sensuality, political calculation and bloodshed.
Drawing upon chronicles, correspondence and the often overlooked local history of Forlì, Umberto Pasqui reconstructs the material and spiritual world in which Caterina actually lived, carefully separating documented history from the legends that accumulated around her.
The result is neither an indictment nor a celebration. Written with the atmosphere and momentum of a historical novel while remaining faithful to the surviving evidence, Behind the Walls of Forlì brings us unusually close to a Renaissance woman who was feminine and formidable, affectionate and ruthless, believing and sinful, victorious and defeated.
Not a heroine fashioned for modern sensibilities.
Not the monster created by hostile memory.
Not merely the Tigress.
Caterina Sforza, as nearly as five centuries will allow us to meet her.
Here is Caterina not only as ruler and warrior, but as daughter of the Sforza, wife, widow, lover and mother; as a woman attentive to beauty, medicine and the secrets of the body; as a patron of religious institutions and sacred art; as the implacable avenger of Giacomo Feo; and as a Catholic woman whose faith existed, without easy contradiction, beside ambition, sensuality, political calculation and bloodshed.
Drawing upon chronicles, correspondence and the often overlooked local history of Forlì, Umberto Pasqui reconstructs the material and spiritual world in which Caterina actually lived, carefully separating documented history from the legends that accumulated around her.
The result is neither an indictment nor a celebration. Written with the atmosphere and momentum of a historical novel while remaining faithful to the surviving evidence, Behind the Walls of Forlì brings us unusually close to a Renaissance woman who was feminine and formidable, affectionate and ruthless, believing and sinful, victorious and defeated.
Not a heroine fashioned for modern sensibilities.
Not the monster created by hostile memory.
Not merely the Tigress.
Caterina Sforza, as nearly as five centuries will allow us to meet her.
Also from
Pasqui, Umberto
The man who brewed a Nation: Gaetano Pasqui of Forlì the forgotten pioneer who imagined an Italian future for Beer
Pasqui, Umberto
Paperback
$15.00
Also in
Historical Figures
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: A Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich
Metaxas, Eric
Paperback
$11.99
The Rise of Thomas Cromwell: Power and Politics in the Reign of Henry VIII, 1485-1534
Everett, Michael
Paperback
$10.99
The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People's Constitution
Wegman, Jesse
Hardcover
$27.00
The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel: Romanovs, Revolutionaries, and the Forgotten Titan Who Fueled the World
Brunt, Douglas
Hardcover
$28.80
America's Founding Son: John Quincy Adams, from President to Political Maverick
Crawford, Bob
Hardcover
$26.60
Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours
Onuf, Peter S.
Cogliano, Francis D.
Hardcover
$26.99
Rebel of the Regency: The Scandalous Saga of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain's Queen Without a Crown
Foster, Ann
Hardcover
$29.69
Operation Sparrow: The Incredible True Story of the Spies Who Tricked Hitler and Won the War
Bell, Jason
Hardcover
$31.34
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
Boom, Corrie Ten
Sherrill, John
Paperback
From $4.99
A Librarian's War: The Man Who Fought World War II with Books and Brought the Joy of Reading to Millions
Manning, Molly Guptill
Hardcover
$31.49
Biography of a Dangerous Idea: A New History of Race from Louis XIV to Thomas Jefferson
Curran, Andrew S.
Hardcover
$37.99
The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
Strauss, Gwen
Paperback
$19.00
A Thousand Shall Fall: The Electrifying Story of a Soldier and His Family Who Dared to Practice Their Faith in Hitler's Germany
Mundy, Susi Hasel
Paperback
$16.14
Solo and Together: Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, an Enigmatic Life and Marriage
Hansen, James R.
Hardcover
$38.00
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
Bourdain, Anthony
Paperback
$17.09
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Kendi, Ibram X.
Paperback
$27.54
The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
Brunt, Douglas
Paperback
$18.99
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Winchester, Simon
Paperback
$18.04
The Confessions of Samuel Pepys: Private Revelations from Britain's Most Famed Diarist
de la Bédoyère, Guy
Hardcover
$33.25
The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
Rosen, Jeffrey
Paperback
$19.00
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
Beals, Melba Pattillo
Paperback
From $7.99
American Prometheus (Pulitzer Prize Winner): The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Oppenheimer
Bird, Kai
Sherwin, Martin J.
Paperback
From $14.99
Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection
Faber, Toby
Paperback
$19.00
The First Fascist: The Sensational Life and Dark Legacy of the Marquis de Morès
Luzzatto, Sergio
Hardcover
$31.50
The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It
Mazzeo, Tilar J.
Paperback
$18.04
The Man Behind the Cane: Preston Brooks, Political Violence, and the Road to the Civil War
Quigley, Paul
Hardcover
$34.99
The Power Broker (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Caro, Robert A.
Hardcover
$66.50
The Forsaken Founder: Gouverneur Morris, the Unsung Patriot Who Wrote the Constitution, Stood Up to Slavery, and Survived the Reign of Terror
Greenberger, Scott S.
Hardcover
$28.50
The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War
Molloy, J. T.
Donohue, John Chick
Paperback
$18.04
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
Kiernan, Denise
Paperback
From $9.99
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Goodwin, Doris Kearns
Paperback
From $12.99
The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
Von Drehle, David
Paperback
$18.04
Tomboy Bride, 50th Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West
Backus, Harriet Fish
Paperback
$18.04
Miracles in American History, Volume Two: Amazing Faith That Shaped the Nation: Adapted from William J. Federer's American Minute [With 2 Paperbacks]
Federer, Susie
Federer, William J.
Paperback
$19.00
The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
Harrington, Joel F.
Paperback
$19.95
Master of the Senate (Pulitzer Prize Winner): The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Caro, Robert A.
Paperback
From $14.99
A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid
Gobodo-Madikizela, Pumla
Paperback
$15.19