Blue Lilies

Blue Lilies is the story of the Farnese family, a blend of heavily-researched history and literary text with a dash of soap opera: power, money, blood, sexual calculation and promiscuity, intrigue, and seemingly unstoppable social ascent. Blue Lilies tells of the birth, rise, and extinction of a family that in the short space of fifty years leapt from low-ranking rural aristocracy to the highest society of Rome. The dynasty's founder would become Pope and his grandsons the rulers of an inde...