# The Second Duchess

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-loupas/the-second-duchess

![The Second Duchess](https://quivercdn.com/covers/arrow/elizabeth-loupas/the-second-duchess_978-00-9957-639-6.jpg?v=2026-04-22%2016%3A45%3A33)

- Authors: [Elizabeth Loupas](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-loupas)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2014-05-08

## Description

A dazzling tale of love, sumptuous splendour and conspiracy in the Italian Renaissance court of Ferrara, from the brilliant author of The Flower Reader. Barbara of Austria is plain, quick-witted and sensible. She also desperately needs a husband, for unmarried at twenty-six, she is about to be packed off to a convent, like her sisters before her. So it is that she seizes what seems to be her last chance - a proposal of marriage from Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Lucrezia Borgia's grandson, clever, handsome, powerful - and widely believed to have murdered his first wife, Lucrezia de Medici. Barbara goes into her marriage clear-eyed, fascinated by her dangerous, enigmatic new husband - and increasingly - recklessly - driven to discover the truth about the death of his first duchess.

## Editions

### The Second Duchess

- Publisher: arrow
- ISBN: 978-00-9957-639-6
- Pages: 432
- Published: 2014-05-08
- Language: en_GB

### The Second Duchess

- Publisher: Berkley
- ISBN: 978-04-5123-215-1
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2011-03-01
- Language: en_US