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The writer of Blood and Beauty comes back with another captivating book about Renaissance Italy and one of history's most notorious families. Before the Corleones, prior to the Lannisters, there have been the Borgias. Best-selling novelist Sarah Dunant has long been attracted to the high dilemma of Renaissance Italy: electric power, love, beauty, brutality, and the ties of blood vessels. With In the Name of the Family, she offers a thrilling exploration of the home of Borgia's final years, together with a diplomat known as Niccolò Machiavelli. It is 1502, and Rodrigo Borgia, a self-confessed womanizer and master of political problem, is currently on the papal throne as Alexander VI. His girl Lucrezia, era 22 - already 3 x committed and a pawn in her father's ideas - is exploring her own electric power. And then you can find his kid Cesare Borgia, excellent, ruthless, and progressively more unpredictable; it is his romance with Machiavelli that provides the Florentine diplomat a master class at night arts of electric power and politics. What Machiavelli discovers will go on to inform his great work of modern politics, The Prince. But while the pope rails against old age and his son's progressively more erratic habit, it is Lucrezia who must navigate the treacherous courtroom of Urbino, her new home, and another challenging marriage to produce her own place ever sold. Sarah Dunant again uses her remarkable gift ideas as a storyteller to bring to life the passionate men and women of the Borgia family as well as the ever-compelling figure of Machiavelli, through whom the listener will experience one of the very most interesting - and doomed - dynasties ever.
