ROME, OCT. 20, 2011 (Zenit.org).- ZENIT readers are accustomed to finding here at Rome Notes the musings of our talented art historian Elizabeth Lev. This week is no exception, but today, instead of Lev's outlook on the goings-on in Rome, we will hear about her first book, just out this week.

http://www.zenit.org/article-33699?l=english

A Rome based American historian tells the extraordinary story of Caterina Riario Sforza, perhaps the most prominent woman of Renaissance Italy, who was a wife, a mother, a leader, and a warrior with the courage to battle a Borgia pope, the charm to beguile a Medici husband, and the fierceness to make Machiavelli himself wince. Learn more about this book here, http://bit.ly/r2eHvt and its author here, http://bit.ly/rfpIlS Historical Fiction