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The Borgias

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Description for The Borgias Paperback. Warlords, Popes, Poisoners - the true story of the Borgias, the first family of the Italian Renaissance Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; HBJD; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 276. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear and previous owner's inscription

The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy.

The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven papal offspring also rose to power and fame - Lucrezia Borgia, his daughter, whose husband was famously murdered by her brother, and that brother, Cesare, who served as the model for Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince. Notorious for seizing power, wealth, land, and titles through bribery, marriage, and murder, the dynasty's dramatic rise from its Spanish roots to ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849019941
SKU
KAC0000260
Shipping Time
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About Christopher Hibbert
Christopher Hibbert wrote more than fifty acclaimed books, including The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici and Rome: The Biography of a City. A leading popular historian whose works reflect meticulous scholarship, he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He died in 2008.

Reviews for The Borgias
Rather more than the story of an extraordinary and vicious family, The House Of Borgia is an engrossing account of a country divided up into a collection of constantly warring states, of alliances made and broken and of almost unimaginable power and wealth there for the taking by those ruthless enough to let nothing stand in the way of their ... Read more

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