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Authors: Elizabeth Loupas

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
Murder of a Medici Princess
, by Caroline P. Murphy. Nonfiction as riveting as any novel. The true story of Isabella de’ Medici, Lucrezia’s older sister.
The Splendid Table: Recipes from Emilia-Romagna, the Heartland of Northern Italian Food
, by Lynne Rossetto Kasper. A sumptuous cookbook with many traditional Ferrarese recipes. Also packed with fascinating tidbits of history.
I Modi: the Sixteen Pleasures: an Erotic Album of the Italian Renaissance
, by Guilio Romano, Marcantonio Raimondi, Pietro Aretino, and Count Jean-Frederic-Maximilien de Waldeck, edited, translated from the Italian, and with a commentary by Lynne Lawner. Beautiful and sometimes shocking. Wonderful commentary.
Sacred Hearts
, by Sarah Dunant. This is a wonderful novel also set in sixteenth-century Ferrara. All of Dunant’s books are excellent.
 
For a complete bibliography, and further ideas on book club meetings, ranging from simplified modern recipes for Ferrarese-style tidbits to details on arranging a telephone or video chat with Elizabeth as part of your book club’s discussion, visit
www.elizabethloupas.com
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Elizabeth Loupas
has worked as a writer, producer, and executive in the broadcasting industry; in other times and other places she has been a librarian, a magazine editor, a teacher, and a marketing consultant. She holds degrees in literary studies and library / information science.
She lives on the Elm Fork of the Trinity River, halfway between Dallas and Fort Worth, with her husband and two beagles. Please visit her at
elizabethloupas.com
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