The Borgias av G. J. Meyer

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<b>The startling truth behind one of the most notorious dynasties in history is revealed in a remarkable new account by the acclaimed author of <i>The Tudors</i> and <i>A World Undone</i>. Sweeping aside the gossip, slander, and distortion that have shrouded the Borgias for centuries, G. J. Meyer offers an unprecedented portrait of the infamous Renaissance family and their storied milieu.</b><br> <br>They burst out of obscurity in Spain not only to capture the great prize of the papacy, but to do so twice. Throughout a tumultuous half-century—as popes, statesmen, warriors, lovers, and breathtakingly ambitious political adventurers—they held center stage in the glorious and blood-drenched pageant known to us as the Italian Renaissance, standing at the epicenter of the power games in which Europe’s kings and Italy’s warlords gambled for life-and-death stakes.<br> <br> Five centuries after their fall—a fall even more sudden than their rise to the he