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...LIFE AND TIMES OF LUCREZIA BORGIA (343 pp.)-Mario Bellonc!-Harcourt, Brace...
...done on six small pieces of canvas sewed together. He picked it up for $100, and then on a hunch showed it to Maurice H. Goldblatt, director of Notre Dame's university art gallery. Director Goldblatt's verdict: the old painting is a long-lost portrait of Lucrezia Borgia by the 16th century Renaissance master Bartolommeo Veneto. Possible value...
...such a flair for disposing of his enemies without leaving awkward evidence around that historians have never been able to agree on the subtler details of his career. Did he bully and terrify his own father half to death? Was he guilty of incest with his beautiful sister Lucrezia? Did he murder his elder brother? Did he really earn the title one historian gave him: "Prince of Magnificent Treasons...
There is a descendant of Charlemagne, Lucrezia Borgia, Mary Queen of Scots, William the Silent, Vladimir of Russia, Geoffrey Chaucer, Pierre de Ronsard, Diane de Poitiers, Agnes Sorel and 1,048,567 other traceable ancestors, who frequently breaks 70 on the golf links. Three years ago he donated a silver cup-La Coupe du Roi des Beiges, for a tournament at Onex, Switzerland-and last year he won the cup himself. This year he reached the quarter finals of the amateur championship in Paris. Other members of the Onex club hail Leopold III, King of the Belgians, as "a perfect...
Just when Lund thinks that his wife has begun to love him, the lily-like Lucrezia tries to do him in with a dollop of poisoned wine. Lund seems to enjoy all this nonsense, but he is the only member of the cast who does. Miss Goddard, trailing around in sumptuous gowns, waits in vain for an opportunity to climb alluringly in & out of a Renaissance...