Borgias Series by Sarah Dunant, Nicholas Boulton

3.67 · 40 ratings
  • Blood & Beauty: The Borgias (Borgias #1)
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    Blood & Beauty: The Borgias (Borgias #1)

    Sarah Dunant

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2013

    By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and inside the Church. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy as Alexander VI, he is defined not just by his wealth or his passionate love for his illegitimate children, but by his blood: He is a Spanish Pope in a city run by Italians... more

  • In The Name of the Family (Borgias #2)
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    In The Name of the Family (Borgias #2)

    Sarah Dunant, Nicholas Boulton

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2017

    `It is better to be feared than loved' - Niccolo Machiavelli In the bear pit of renaissance politics, a young Florentine diplomat finds himself first hand observer on the history's most notorious family - the Borgias.In the Name of the Family - as Blood and Beauty did before - holds up a mirror to a turbulent moment of history, sweeping aside the myths to bring alive the real Borgia family; complicated, brutal, passionate and glorious... more

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