![]() ![]() It proves temporary, however, in light of the Duchess's increasing jealousy over Beatrice's rising star when she produces an heir for her husband and gains his confidence and love. Finding scorn rather than love as her husband's mistress remains in place, Beatrice turns to her cousin the Duchess of Milan for solace, and a powerful alliance is formed. Il Moro, the ambitious and much beloved regent for the Duke of Milan, under duress takes as his wife the young Beatrice, daughter of the Duke of Ferrara. Replete with references to Fortune's wheel and Dante, as well as excerpts from Leonardo da Vinci's correspondence, this complex epic chronicles the dynamics of and struggle for power in Milan during the 1490's. Lavishly detailed and intensely intimate: a second novel from Ennis, who here creates as exotic a situation as he did in Byzantium (1989) by focusing on the Machiavellian maneuvers and sexual politics of a critical period in the history of Renaissance Italy. ![]()
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