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The startling truth behind one of the very most notorious dynasties ever sold is unveiled in a impressive new bank account by the acclaimed author of The Tudors and A World Undone. Sweeping aside the gossip, slander, and distortion which 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 and then capture the fantastic award of the papacy, but to do so twice. Throughout a tumultuous half-century - as popes, statesmen, warriors, enthusiasts, and breathtakingly ambitious political adventurers - they held center level in the glorious and blood-drenched pageant known to us as the Italian Renaissance, located at the epicenter of the energy games in which Europe's kings and Italy's warlords gambled for life-and-death stakes. Five centuries after their fall season - a fall season even more quick than their surge to the heights of ability - they stay immutable icons of the depths to which mankind can descend: Rodrigo, the Borgia who bought the papal crown and prostituted the Roman Cathedral; Cesare, the Borgia who became first a teenage cardinal and then the most treacherous cutthroat of an violent time; Lucrezia, the Borgia as shockingly immoral as she was beautiful. These have long been stock figures at night chronicle of Western european villainy, their name synonymous with unspeakable evil. But performed these Borgias of tale actually exist? Grounding his narrative in exhaustive research and pulling from rarely evaluated key options, Meyer brings amazing new understanding to the true people within the age-encrusted misconception. Equally illuminating is the light he shines on the brilliant circles where the Borgias shifted and the thrilling era they helped to shape, a period of wars and political convulsions that reverberate to the present day, when Western civilization together wallowed in appalling brutality and soared to incredible heights. Stunning in range, rich in informing detail, G. J. Meyer's The Borgias is an indelible work sure to become the new standard on a family and a world that continue steadily to enthrall.
