Blood & beauty : the Borgias : a novel / Sarah Dunant.
"By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy are matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and inside the Church. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy as Alexander VI, he is defined not just by his wealth or his passionate lov...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
[2013]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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| Physical Description: | 506 pages : map ; 25 cm |
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Blood and beauty. |
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