Blood & beauty
By: Sarah Dunant
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781471336263; 9781471336270
Subjects: Fiction; History
Description: 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. Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy as Alexander VI, but if the Borgias are to triumph, he must use papacy and family to succeed. His eldest son Cesare is his greatest weapon, and his daughter Lucrezia is the prime dynastic tool. Stripping away the myths around the Borgias, Blood & Beauty is a majestic novel that breathes life into this astonishing family.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 623-624.

Includes bibliography (p. 623-624).