{"product_id":"lady-of-monza-mirella-patzer-9781998169559","title":"Lady of Monza: A True Story of Forbidden Love, Murder, and Betrayal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA true story of forbidden love, murder, and the woman who refused to be erased.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVirginia Maria de Leyva had no say in her fate. At fifteen, her family locked her inside the Convent of Santa Margherita and considered the matter settled. She was meant to pray, obey, and vanish from history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe had other ideas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRising as a leader within the convent, Virginia carved out power in the only world she was given. Then Gian Paolo Osio came to the convent walls. Charming, dangerous, and entirely forbidden. What followed would bring down two families, silence at least three people permanently, and send shockwaves from Monza to Rome. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA secret affair. Hidden pregnancies. And when a lay sister threatened to expose everything, she disappeared. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen the apothecary turned up dead in the street. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen others stopped being seen at all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eItaly was watching. The Church was watching. And Virginia stood at the center of it, the woman everyone wanted to contain, and no one could quite manage to destroy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lady of Monza\u003c\/i\u003e brings to life a story of religious corruption, obsession, and survival in Renaissance Italy.\u003cbr\u003eFor those who love Renaissance Italy historical fiction steeped in dark secrets, religious corruption, and the true stories history tried to bury, The Lady of Monza belongs on your shelf alongside Sarah Dunant's The Birth of Venus, Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, and Silvia Ranfagni's The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mirella Patzer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1998169553\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781998169559\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e History and Women\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 724\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.59d","brand":"Mirella Patzer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001375269119,"sku":"9781998169559","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lady-of-monza-mirella-patzer-9781998169559","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}