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Lady of Monza: A True Story of Forbidden Love, Murder, and Betrayal

Lady of Monza: A True Story of Forbidden Love, Murder, and Betrayal

Patzer, Mirella

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction

ISBN10: 1998169553
ISBN13: 9781998169559
Publisher: History and Women
Published: Apr 1 2026
Pages: 724
Weight: 2.10
Height: 1.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A true story of forbidden love, murder, and the woman who refused to be erased.

Virginia Maria de Leyva had no say in her fate. At fifteen, her family locked her inside the Convent of Santa Margherita and considered the matter settled. She was meant to pray, obey, and vanish from history.

She had other ideas.

Rising as a leader within the convent, Virginia carved out power in the only world she was given. Then Gian Paolo Osio came to the convent walls. Charming, dangerous, and entirely forbidden. What followed would bring down two families, silence at least three people permanently, and send shockwaves from Monza to Rome.

A secret affair. Hidden pregnancies. And when a lay sister threatened to expose everything, she disappeared.

Then the apothecary turned up dead in the street.

Then others stopped being seen at all.

Italy was watching. The Church was watching. And Virginia stood at the center of it, the woman everyone wanted to contain, and no one could quite manage to destroy.

The Lady of Monza brings to life a story of religious corruption, obsession, and survival in Renaissance Italy.

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