Giveaway winner!

So last night, as many of you will have seen on facebook and twitter, we surpassed the 100,000 page view mark!

As promised, now we've reached that mark, I shall announce the winner of the giveaway!

*drumroll*

Aimee C. Mack

Congratulations Aimee. Please can you email me with your mailing address and I'll organise the book to come out to you (probably on payday now, sorry), and as soon as the pendant arrives I'll get that in the post for you too!

100,000 page views giveaway extravaganza!

I'm getting rather excited by the fact that we're inching ever closer to hitting 100,000 page views. And so, I thought I would announce a bit of a giveaway! I'm not only giving away one thing, oh no. Not one thing, but two! You lucky lot!

First of all, I shall be giving away a copy of "The Deadly Sisterhood" by Leonie Frieda - I've recently started reading this brilliant tale of women in the Renaissance and I have to say, it's absolutely brilliant! Frieda concentrates on a handful of women who lived during the Renaissance, all of whom had power and influence - Lucrezia Tournabuoni, The D'Este sisters, Lucrezia Borgia and Caterina Sforza. A fantastic read for anyone interested in the women of Renaissance Italy.

As well as this, I shall also be giving away a beautiful silver plated pendant featuring Lucrezia Borgia and a portion of a love letter written to her from Pietro Bembo. I found this beautiful pendant whilst browsing Etsy, and the person who made this lovely pendant has also made a huge selection of other ones too. Please do check out the shop. Now, I have just ordered this pendant but as it's coming from the United States it may take a while - but as soon as I receive it I shall pop it right back in the post for the lucky winner.

So what do you have to do to be in with a chance of winning? 

All you have to do is like the facebook page here! And once we've rolled over the magic 100,000 pageviews mark, I shall use a random number generator to pick the winner! Good luck!

There's also another very special announcement coming, I hope, very soon. Watch this space for details! I'm absolutely bursting to tell you all what it is but I've been sworn to secrecy!

And The Winner Is......

I am very pleased to announce the winner of the giveaway for Paul Stathern's "The Artist, The Philosopher and The Warrior"!

And the winner is..............

Claire Biggs-Tandy

Congratulations Claire! Please can you email me here with your postage address!

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Lots of stuff coming your way on this here blog too!

• The remainder of my posts on Caterina Sforza (this may take a while as her life is so full of stuff!)
• Book reviews!
• A piece on the fantastic artist Michelangelo
• More on the Seventeenth Century - it's been a while and there are certain individuals who deserve a bit of attention.

If there's anything you would like to see on this blog, please do email me.

It's Giveaway Time!

Considering as how this here blog has just celebrated it's 1 year birthday and just passed 39,000 page views, I thought it about time I do a little giveaway. Plus, it has been an absolute age since I last did a giveaway.

This time, I'm going to be giving away a copy of Paul Strathern's "The Artist, The Philosopher and The Warrior"...

This book, all about three of the most influential men in Renaissance Italy is utterly fantastic and one of my favourite books on the period.

All you have to do to win this excellent book is:

• Like the facebook page
• And leave a comment on this post

The winner will be chosen by a random number generator and the closing date is Sunday October 7th!

And The Winner Is

We've done it! The facebook page has hit the magic 100 likes! I'm sure you'll all remember that I said I'd be giving away a copy of Christopher Hibbert's "The Borgias" as soon as we hit it.

And the winner is...April Renn! Now I have already announced this on facebook, but I wanted to do a quick post about it too! Please email me at talkingbloodglucose@yahoo.co.uk to claim your prize, and I'll pop it in the post.

The next giveaway will be when the facebook page hits 300 likes! So do get sharing guys :D

A Quick Reminder About the Book Give-Away!

Just a quick reminder that as soon as the facebook page hits 100 likes, I'll be giving away a copy of the book above. This book "The Borgias" also known as "The Borgias and their Enemies" (I stood there for ages in the bookshop utterly confused with a copy of both titles in my hand, it seems that the copy above is just another edition of the copy I have on my shelf!) is an utterly fantastic book telling the story of the infamous Borgia family, and it's so good I'll end up rereading it at some point in the very near future!

To be in with a chance of getting your hands on this wonderful book, all you have to do is like the facebook page. And as soon as we hit the magic 100 I'll be picking someone at random.

Please do spread the word about both this blog and the facebook page as we're not quite there yet! That and I'm really excited to get this book in the post to the lucky winner!!!