Some people live a dream, Bianca Riario...was not one of those people. In 1484, at the age of 6, she witnessed the sacking of her family's palazzo in Rome and was carried by her lunatic warrior mother into a siege at the Castel Sant'Angelo. Next, dragged by her family to Forlì, far more horrifying delights awaited her. Shortly after Bianca's 10th birthday, her father, Girolamo, was stabbed to death and his naked body was thrown into the middle of the town square. Then her family's palazzo was sacked AGAIN and she was kidnapped by the Orsi Brothers.