This biography of Queen Ena gives a balanced account of her personal life, illustrated by many anecdotes, and a wider perspective of European history and the intricacies of Spanish politics from the 18th century onwards.'

Ena: Spain's English Queen (Biography and Memoirs) (Biography & Memoirs)

Gerard Noel

Constable

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Miles : A Portrait of Miles 17th Duke of Norfolk

Tony Chambers, Lord Carrington

Biographies & Memoirs

Michael Russell

The Heroism of Queen Victoria: And How the Monarchy Was Saved by Princess Alice

BAPTIST PUBLICATIONS

Between the years of 1447 (Nicholas V) and 1572 (Pius V), Rome was transformed from a ruined Medieval city. The Vatican became the official home of the church and the world s largest bureaucracy, a spectacular new Basilica of St Peters took 100 years to build and Michelangelo changed the course of art history with his Sistine Chapel. So vast and expensive was this cultural explosion that a new fundraising initiative was launched: the sale of indulgences. The Renaissance Popes were statesmen, warriors, patrons of the arts as well as churchmen. These were earthly times and the reputations of popes like Alexander VI, the infamous Borgia patriarch, and Julius 'Il Terrible' II for murder, poison, sodomy and simony vary only in degree. Meanwhile, the sin of heresy, which threatens the very core of the Catholic soul, was tirelessly targeted by two other lasting innovations of the period: the Inquisition and witch-hunts. Alexander VI, father of the ruthless Cesare and jezebel Lucrezia, is seen to this day as the embodiment of this iniquity. But Gerard Noel shows this is unjust, and based on false confessions and historical myth. What's more, Alexander created the blueprint for reform - the first of its kind - that would eventually lead to the Counter-Reformation. In his survey of the colourful reigns of the seventeen Renaissance Popes and his examination of the great Borgia myth Noel brings to light the true legacy - political, artistic, religious - of an extraordinary time.

The Renaissance Popes

Robinson Publishing

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