The Borgias : power and fortune /
The glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family, a world of saints, corrupt popes and depraved princes and poisoners, set against the golden age of the Italian Renaissance.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: The crowning moment
- Origins of a dynasty
- The young Rodrigo
- Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia emerges in his true colours
- The way to the top
- A new pope in a new era
- "The scourge of God'
- The best of plans ...
- A crucial realignment
- A royal connection
- IL Valentino's campaign
- Biding time
- The second Romagna campaign
- The Borgias in excelsis
- Cesare strikes out
- Changing fortunes
- Cesare survives
- Borgia's 'reconciliation'
- Lucrezia in Ferrara
- The unforeseen
- Desperate fortune.