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This is a dazzling tale of love, sumptuous splendour and conspiracy in the Italian Renaissance court of Ferrara, from the brilliant author of The Flower Reader. Barbara of Austria is plain, quick-witted and sensible. She also desperately needs a husband, for unmarried at twenty-six, she is about to be packed off to a convent, like her sisters before her. So it is that she seizes what seems to be her last chance - a proposal of marriage from Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Lucrezia Borgia's grandson, clever, handsome, powerful - and widely believed to have murdered his first wife, Lucrezia de Medici. Barbara goes into her marriage clear-eyed, fascinated by her dangerous, enigmatic new husband - and increasingly - recklessly - driven to discover the truth about the death of his first duchess.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Historical fiction

• Full title: Second Duchess
• Author: Elizabeth Loupas
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432
• EAN: 9780099576396
• ISBN: 0099576392
• ID: 02380270
• Publisher: Cornerstone
• Weight: 306 g
• Dimensions: 128 × 197 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. May 2014

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