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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Dunant, Sarah.     Subjects     Alexander VI, Pope, 1431-1503 -- Fiction.     Borgia, Cesare, 1476?-1507 -- Fiction.     Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480-1519 -- Fiction.     Catholic Church. Pope (1492-1503 : Alexander VI) -- Fiction.     Catholic Church. Pope -- Corrupt practices -- Fiction.     Nobility -- Italy -- Papal States -- Fiction.     Church and state -- Fiction.     Italy -- History -- 1492-1559 -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Dunant, Sarah.       by title:      Blood & beauty : the...       by call number:      FICTION DUN     Search the Web     Dunant, Sarah.     Alexander VI, Pope, 1431-1503 -- Fiction.     Borgia, Cesare, 1476?-1507 -- Fiction.     Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480-1519 -- Fiction.     Catholic Church. Pope (1492-1503 : Alexander VI) -- Fiction.     Catholic Church. Pope -- Corrupt practices -- Fiction.     Nobility -- Italy -- Papal States -- Fiction.     Church and state -- Fiction.     Italy -- History -- 1492-1559 -- Fiction.       MARC Display

Blood & beauty : the Borgias : a novel / Sarah Dunant. by Dunant, Sarah. HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., c2013. Call #: FICTION DUN Subjects Alexander VI, Pope, 1431-1503 -- Fiction.   Borgia, Cesare, 1476?-1507 -- Fiction.   Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480-1519 -- Fiction.   Catholic Church. Pope (1492-1503 : Alexander VI) -- Fiction.   Catholic Church. Pope -- Corrupt practices -- Fiction.   Nobility -- Italy -- Papal States -- Fiction.   Church and state -- Fiction.   Italy -- History -- 1492-1559 -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781443406451 (trade pbk.) 9781443406444 Alternate title:  Blood and beauty Edition:  1st Canadian ed. Description:  506 p. : geneal. table, map ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages [505]-506). Summary:  Rooted in the energetic, brutal and corrupt world of 15th-century Italy, Blood and Beauty opens with Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, clever and charismatic, buying his way to the Papal crown. In this he is not unusual. Neither is the fact that he has illegitimate children. What does mark him is his blood; he is a Spaniard in a country run by established Italian families. To thrive, even to survive, he must create his own dynasty using the papacy and his family as the building blocks of power. His son Cesare is his most brilliant pupil. Fearless and calculating (later immortalized in Machiavelli's The Prince), he provides the driving energy and the muscle. The Pope's daughter, Lucrezia, beloved by both men, is their marriage tool. Just twelve when the novel opens, she is to have one dynastic union annulled and a second--beloved--husband murdered by her own brother to make way for a third strategic marriage--all before the age of twenty. Hers is a journey from pawn to political player. Genre:  Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   J. D. Shatford Memorial Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION DUN Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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