The Marriage Portrait

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Tinder Press
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2022
Edition: First Edition

Description: 438 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In the winter of 1561, Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara, is taken on an unexpected visit to a country villa by her husband, Alfonso. As they sit down to dinner in the icy hall it occurs to Lucrezia that Alfonso has a sinister purpose in bringing her here: he intends to kill her.Lucrezia is sixteen years old and has led a sheltered life, locked away inside Florences grandest palazzo, guarded by her fathers soldiers and her mothers ladies-in-waiting. Here in this remote villa, however, she is entirely at the mercy of her increasingly erratic husband.What is Lucrezia to do with this sudden knowledge What chance does she have against Alfonso, the ruler of a province, and a trained soldier How can she ensure her survivalThe Marriage Portrait is a vivid evocation of the beauty and brutality of Renaissance Italy, and of a young woman whose proximity to power places her in mortal danger.

ISBN: 9781472223852