Mistress of the Vatican

ISBN: 978-0061245565


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Mistress of the Vatican

The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope


by Eleanor Herman


Eleanor Herman, the talented author of the New York Times bestselling Sex with Kings andSex with the Queen goes behind the sacred doors of the Catholic Church in Mistress of the Vatican, a scintillating biography of a powerful yet little-known woman whose remarkable story is ripe with secrets, sex, passion, and ambition. For almost four centuries this astonishing story of a woman’s absolute power over the Vatican has been successfully buried—until now.