Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1: The Borgias and the Cenci (version 2)
Author: first_name: Alexandre
last_name: Dumas
Language: English
Year: 1910

Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent scenes of a violent time.

In some instances facts appear distorted out of their true perspective, and in others the author makes unwarranted charges. The careful, mature reader, for whom the books are intended, will recognize, and allow for, this fact. (from publisher's note)

The first volume comprises the annals of the Borgias and the Cenci. The name of t