num_pages: 418
description: Mario Puzo first answered the question 'What is a family?' with the creation of the Corleones in his landmark best seller The Godfather. Now, 30 years later, Puzo enriches us all with his ultimate vision of the subject: the story of the greatest crime family in Italian history, the Borgias.In The Family, this singular novelist transports his readers back to 15th century Rome, and reveals to us the extravagance and intrigue of the Vatican as surely as he once revealed the secrets of the Mafia. At the story's center is Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, a man whose lustful appetites were matched only by his consuming love of family. Surrounding him are his extraordinary children: simple, unloved Jofre; irascible, heartless Juan; beautiful, strong-willed Lucrezia; and passionate warrior Cesare, Machiavelli's friend and inspiration. Their stories constitute a symphony of human emotion and behavior, from pride to romance to jealousy to betrayal and murderous rage.A labor of love two decades in the making, The Family marks the final triumph of one of the greatest storytellers of our time.
language: English
title: The Family
titlecomplete: The Family
characters: Giovanni Borgia, Lucrezia Borgia, Alfonso of Aragon, Niccolò Machiavelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Caterina Sforza, Cesare Borgia, Gioffre Borgia, Pope Alexander VI
genres: Classics, Drama, American, Historical, Italy, Novels, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 13273
places: Vatican City, Rome
publisher: Avon