Sarah Dunant
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The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God's protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. And the arrival of Santa Caterina's new novice sets in motion a chain of events that will shake the convent to its core.
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Renowned for her bright and disciplined way with Renaissance Italy, New York Times best-selling novelist Dunant again visits the Borgias, to whom she recently paid court in Blood and Beauty. As Cesare ruthlessly seeks to unite all of Italy's city-states under Borgia control, Florence counters by sending one Niccolo Machiavelli to Rome as envoy and Lucrezia learns the family business of big-stakes political maneuvering.
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In this first film, as throughout the series, unprecedented access to Jung's family house near Zurich, with his library and consulting room, and to his famous retreat, the lakeside Tower at Bollingen on Lake Zurich, have enabled the producers to refer Jung's biographical story with exactly appropriate visual references. In addition, a major English-language interview with Jung, recorded in 1956 and never previously transmitted on television, forms...