The Borgias : the hidden history /
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. They burst out of obscurity in Spain to capture the great prize of the papacy, not once but twice...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bantam Books,
[2013]
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| Edition: | First Edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: One Whom All Did Fear
- Part One. Alonso, From Out of Nowhere
- A Most Improbable Pope
- Background: The Road to Rome
- Surprises, Disappointments, Hope
- Background: Il Regno-The Kingdom
- Pope and King, Friends No More
- Background: Amazing Italy
- Family Matters
- Background: The Men in the Red Hats
- The End of the Beginning
- Part Two. Rodrigo, A Long Apprenticeship
- Surviving
- Background: The Eternal City, Eternally Reborn
- Pius II : Troubles Rumored and Real
- Background: Il Papa
- Paul II : The Poisoned Chalice
- Background: The Inextinguishable Evil-Heads
- Sixtus IV : Disturbing the Peace
- Background: War, Italian Style
- Innocent VIII : Plumbing the Depths
- Part Three. Alexander, Pope At Last
- The Best Man for the Job
- Background: Madness and Milan
- The Coming of the French
- Background: The Paternity Question : An "Apology"
- The French Depart
- Background: Florence : An Anti-Renaissance
- A Shattering Loss
- Background: The Young Ones
- Valentino
- Part Four. Cesare, Caesar or Nothing
- The Landscape Changes
- Background: Venice, Serene No More
- Conqueror
- Background: The Angel's Castle
- "Longing for Greatness and Renown"
- Background: The Newest Profession
- Settling Scores
- Background: The Great Discoveries
- Man of Destiny
- Background: Superstitions : Another Side of the Renaissance
- Alone
- Aftermath
- Examining Old Assumptions.