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I'll confess, I bought this book solely because of "ten more sons", but I was delighted to find a million more (and factual) reasons why Caterina is just about the most badass woman who ever lived. This was an incredibly well-written biography, packed with detail but also very easy to read. (The epilogue was a bit *too* novelistic, but the majority of the book wasn't nearly so fictionalized and fanciful, so I'll forgive that.) Overall, the author did a great job balancing the specifics of certain historical events with the broader strokes of Italian politics at the time; she gave the reader just enough background so as not to be lost if they were new to the era, but not too many specifics to be bored. And as always, the primary sources were a treat.