Queen of Hearts 
Giulio Cesare and Silvio Berlusconi, Helen of Troy and Patrick D'Addario, Carla Bruni and Cleopatra, Marilyn Monroe and Letizia, and Vittorio Emanuele II Gianfranco Fini, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Benito Mussolini, Madame Pompadour, Ania Pieroni, Anna Bolena and Monica Lewinsky, Eleanor Roosevelt and Michelle Obama, Richelieu and Gianpaolo Tarantini, Massimo D'Alema and Cavour ... Are Hundreds of players in this amazing book by Bruno Vespa, who goes to dig two thousand years (indeed, in three thousand five hundred) of human lives to tell a single theme, like a melody that the applicant has accompanied all ages: the role of women - and Therefore, the weight of eros and sex, but their reassuring presence and protector - next to the men who made history. Current Italian is, as always disruptive. For events involving the female acquaintances of the Prime Minister and dictated a large part of the political agenda in 2009. For Family Affairs of Berlusconi, which led to a request for divorce from his wife, Veronica. And the discussion opened on many, too many violations of the privacy of public men, whether the prime minister or that of Lazio, Piero Marrazzo, the protagonist of the last sex scandal. But the book ranges over the past centuries and in every country in the world, and shows us that nearly all the powerful have had a huge interest in women and that women were able to take advantage of it so sometimes clever, often unscrupulous (Cleopatra is, in this sense, a model perhaps insuperable). So, page after page, the reader opens new scenarios: the Renaissance popes, which increase their power by placing their children and grandchildren, the favorites of the kings of France the most cultured and brilliant (and beautiful) queens of the same, Napoleon victim of his mistresses and his incredible ingenuity, Garibaldi writer of passionate love letters, Cavour renunciation of marriage for power ... But the sexual bulimia John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton, the secret lovers of Lady Diana and his war with Camilla (betrayed in turn by Charles), the erotic fury of François Mitterrand and Carla Bruni, the romantic comings and goings of Cécilia and Nicolas Sarkozy. And then, the chastity of De Gasperi and Berlinguer, the many fans of Gronchi and Craxi, the second marriage of Fini, Casini, Bossi, D'Alema, Veltroni discrete companions, Bersani and Franceschini, vibrant love life of Berlusconi. And much more. In a large fresco that reveals the unsuspected influence had by the "Queen of Hearts" in human history.
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