Title: In the name of the family
Description: Renowned for her bright and disciplined way with Renaissance Italy, New York Times best-selling novelist Dunant again visits the Borgias, to whom she recently paid court in Blood and Beauty. As Cesare ruthlessly seeks to unite all of Italy's city-states under Borgia control, Florence counters by sending one Niccolo Machiavelli to Rome as envoy and Lucrezia learns the family business of big-stakes political maneuvering.
Subjects: Fiction, Borgia family, Nobility, History, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, biographical, Fiction, historical, Italy, fiction, Fiction, historical, general
Places: Rome (Italy), Italy, Papal States
Time periods: 1492-1559, 1420-1798