The Bombbor publishing house represents the book of Sofia Bagdasarova “Phoenixes and Sphinxes. Renaissance ladies in poetry, paintings and life. ” Everyone heard about the beauty Lucretia Borgia, depraved and insidious. But in Renaissance Italy there were other, no less vivid women: poets, writers, singers, housewives of salons, nuns, courtesans and favorites of the monarchs, as well as, of course, artists and model.