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The startling truth behind one of the most notorious dynasties in history is revealed in a remarkable new account by the acclaimed author of The Tudors and A World Undone . Sweeping aside the gossip, slander, and distortion that have shrouded the Borgias for centuries, G. J. Meyer offers an unprecedented portrait of the infamous Renaissance family and their storied milieu. THE BORGIAS They burst out of obscurity in Spain not only to capture the great prize of the papacy, but to do so twice. Throughout a tumultuous half-century?as popes, statesmen, warriors, lovers, and breathtakingly ambitious political adventurers?they held center stage in the glorious and blood-drenched pageant known to us as the Italian Renaissance, standing at the epicenter of the power games in which Europe's kings and Italy's warlords gambled for life-and-death stakes. Five centuries after their fall?a fall even more sudden than their rise to the heights of power?they remain immutable symbols of the depths to which humanity can descend: Rodrigo Borgia, who bought the papal crown and prostituted the Roman Church; Cesare Borgia, who became first a teenage cardinal and then the most treacherous cutthroat of a vi

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Author

G. J. Meyer

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299401457

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.74 / 5 (30 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14