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Sarah dunant borgia trilogy7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() What Machiavelli learns will go on to inform his great work of modern politics, The Prince. ![]() And then there is his son Cesare Borgia, brilliant, ruthless, and increasingly unstable it is his relationship with Machiavelli that gives the Florentine diplomat a master class in the dark arts of power and politics. His daughter Lucrezia, aged twenty-two-already three times married and a pawn in her father’s plans-is discovering her own power. It is 1502 and Rodrigo Borgia, a self-confessed womanizer and master of political corruption, is now on the papal throne as Alexander VI. With In the Name of the Family, she offers a thrilling exploration of the House of Borgia’s final years, in the company of a young diplomat named Niccolò Machiavelli. ![]() īestselling novelist Sarah Dunant has long been drawn to the high drama of Renaissance Italy: power, passion, beauty, brutality, and the ties of blood. Before the Corleones, before the Lannisters, there were the Borgias. Official Synopsis from Amazon: The author of Blood and Beauty returns with another captivating novel about Renaissance Italy and one of history’s most notorious families. ![]()
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