The Borgias : history's most notorious dynasty /

The Borgias : history's most notorious dynasty /

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Author / Creator:	Hollingsworth, Mary.
Imprint:	London : Quercus, 2011.
Description:	1 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Borgia family. Borgia family. Nobility -- Italy -- Papal States -- Biography. Nobility. Papal States -- History -- 1417-1605. Europe -- Papal States. History. Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8908057

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ISBN:	9780857389169 (hbk.) 0857389165 (hbk.)
Summary:	The Borgia family of Renaissance Italy has become a byword for pride, lust, cruelty, avarice, splendour and venomous intrigue. They have inspired abomination and fascination in almost equal measure, comparable to the Corleone clan depicted in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather. Indeed, Puzo himself featured the Borgias in his last novel, The Family, and the Borgias have inspired many other works of fiction together with plays, films, and even an opera -- Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia. Of Spanish origin, the Borgias came to prominence in the Italy of the 15th century, at a time when the spiritual values of the medieval Church were being swept aside by the worldly secularism of the Renaissance. They also became notorious for licentiousness, venality and indeed all forms of immorality, while at the same time their patronage of the arts helped to bring about some of the greatest artistic masterpieces of the Renaissance.

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Summary:	The Borgias have become a byword for pride, lust, cruelty, avarice, splendour and venomous intrigue. An inspiration for many works of fiction, most famously Mario Puzo's The Godfather , they have aroused abomination and fascination in almost equal measure, while their patronage of the arts created some of the great masterpieces of the Renaissance. From the powerful, merciless Rodrigo Borgia, better known as Pope Alexander VI, to the beautiful Lucrezia and the debauched and murderous Cesare, Mary Hollingsworth's account of the dynasty's dramatic rise from its Spanish roots to the heights of Renaissance society forms a compelling tale of brutality, incest, unparalleled corruption and extortionate greed.
Physical Description:	1 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
ISBN:	9780857389169 0857389165