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“Isabella did not lack for occupation, and had plenty of projects between the embellishment of her art collection and, during Francesca’s absences, the running of Mantua. The worsening situation as Cesare Borgia greedily took the weaker Romagnal states, as well as there being two French invasions, had left Isabella as regent of her husband’s small but important state for much of her married life. During that critical period, which required supreme diplomacy, she feared that her husband, a creature not gifted with the necessary slippery talents, could cause real harm to the couple and their state with one of his ill-tempered and overly frank outbursts.”

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Book:The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance

Source: The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance

“Lucrezia knew well that Elisabeth had fallen under Isabella’s malignant thumb, and the usually kind duchess found a mean streak that Lucrezia’s sensative antennae picked up, but did not show.”

Renaissance History

Book:The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance

Source: The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance

“Sorry as she was for the couple, the consummate actress trained at the Vatican school of drama and diplomacy may have felt more than a scintilla of satisfaction at her brother’s success.”

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Book:The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance

Source: The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance

“Any irony intended proved words wasted, for they were drowned in Isabella’s rapacity.”

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Book:The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance

Source: The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance

“The scene had been orchestrated for a display that would overpower the envoys; it did not help the visitors’ nerves when Cesare’s stern-faced bodyguards proceeded to lock the doors behind them.”

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Book:The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance

Source: The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance

“A notable absentee at her father’s bedside had been Isabella; she could no longer attempt to guide the rule of both Mantua and Ferrara as she had been wont over the past years.”

Renaissance History

Book:The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance

Source: The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance