Books Details
Author : Sarah Dunant Pages : 544 pages Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Language : eng ISBN-10 : 0812981618 ISBN-13 : 9780812981612
Books Descriptions
By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by its
brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and inside the Church. When
Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy as Alexander VI, he is defined
not just by his wealth or his passionate love for his illegitimate children, but by his
blood: He is a Spanish Pope in a city run by Italians. If the Borgias are to triumph, this
charismatic, consummate politician with a huge appetite for life, women, and power
must use papacy and family?in particular, his eldest son, Cesare, and his daughter
Lucrezia?in order to succeed.Cesare, with a dazzlingly cold intelligence and an even
colder soul, is his greatest?though increasingly unstable?weapon. Later immortalized
in Machiavelli?s The Prince, he provides the energy and the muscle. Lucrezia, beloved
by both men, is the prime dynastic tool. Twelve years old when the novel opens, hers
is a journey through three marriages, and from childish
