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2. The Pope's Daughter by Dario Fo

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Sun Oct 23, 2016, 06:39 PM

Oct 2016

Hi Hermetic. This one is a revisionist biography of Lucrezia Borgia, a charming girl, shamelessly exploited by her lecherous and manipulative father, pope Alexander VI and her murderous and manipulative brother Cesare. It's not too long. The pace is quick and Fo has a sly sense of humor.

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