Dario Fo (All reviews)
- Nov 8 2016
Found in Translation: ‘The Pope’s Daughter’ by Dario Fo
— The Oxford Culture Review - Oct 14 2016
Weekend Reading
— Signature - Oct 14 2016
Italian playwright Dario Fo dies aged 90
— The Australian - Jul 17 2016
#RivetingReviews: Jonathan Levi reviews THE POPE’S DAUGHTER by Dario Fo
— European Literature Network - Mar 21 2016
Dario Fo at 90: so farce, so good
— The Guardian - Feb 2 2016
The Pope’s Daughter
— Historical novel society - Dec 22 2015
Nota Benes
— World Literature Today - Nov 3 2015
The Pope's Daughter
— New Pages - Sep 28 2015
A reading life
— The Barnes and Nobles Review - Aug 14 2015
"THE POPE'S DAUGHTER ... stands as an evident tribute both to its much maligned heroine and to Franca Rame, in all her beauty and fiery dignity.”
— The New York Times - Aug 10 2015
"Few readers will fail to see parallels between this political action and its on-going warfare, and similar behavior and political activity in the present day..."
— Mary Whipple Reviews - Aug 10 2015
"“The Pope’s Daughter” offers a studied reconsideration of Lucrezia’s life, swerving dramatically from accounts of her as “a monster, a poisoner, and a prostitute.”"
— The Washington Post - Aug 7 2015
"In his fictionalized retelling of her life, Lucrezia is indeed beautiful and intelligent."
— The Boston Globe - Aug 6 2015
“[. . .] not quite like any of the other thousand books written on Lucrezia Borgia: a deeply felt three-dimensional portrait that replaces flamboyant rumors with fallible, admirable humanity.”
— The Christian Science Monitor - Jul 27 2015
"The Pope’s Daughter is sophisticated, clever, challenging [. . .]– everything we have come to expect from a Nobel Laureate and in a first novel."
— BookSexyReview.com - May 20 2015
"In this deft translation, there’s a historical plethora of saints and sinners, arranged marriages and forced annulments, wars and murders..."
— Kirkus Reviews