social sciences

摘要

Goldsmith, Elizabeth C. The Kings' Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and Her Sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin. PublicAffairs: Perseus. Apr. 2012. c.272p. index. ISBN 9781586488895. $26.99. biog This dual biography relates the interesting but little-known saga of the Mancini sisters, nieces of Cardinal Mazarin, giant of French statecraft. Born in Italy but summoned to the French court as children, Marie and Hortense defied the strictures that bound women's lives then.