The Borgias
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The Borgias

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The Borgias

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The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious cruelty—all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy. Examples of infamy flourished alongside some of the finest art produced in western history.This is but one of several paradoxes associated with the Borgia family. For the family which produced corrupt popes, depraved princes and poisoners, would also produce a saint. Previously history has tended to condemn, or attempt in part to exonerate, this remarkable family. Yet in order to understand the Borgias, the Borgias must be related to their time, together with the world which enabled them to flourish. Within this context the Renaissance itself takes on a very different aspect. Was the corruption part of the creation, or vice versa? Would one have been possible without the other?The powerful forces which first played out in the amphitheaters of ancient Greece: hubris, incest, murder, rivalries and doomed families, treacheries of political power, twists of fate—they are all here. Along with the final, tragic downfall. All these elements are played out in full in the glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family.

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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Year
2019
ISBN
9781643131832
Topic
History
Subtopic
European Renaissance History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Maps
  5. Abbreviated Borgia Family Tree
  6. Dramatis Personae
  7. Prologue: The Crowning Moment
  8. 1. Origins of a Dynasty
  9. 2. The Young Rodrigo
  10. 3. Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia Emerges in His True Colours
  11. 4. The Way to the Top
  12. 5. A New Pope in a New Era
  13. 6. ‘The Scourge of God’
  14. 7. The Best of Plans . . .
  15. 8. A Crucial Realignment
  16. 9. A Royal Connection
  17. 10. Il Valentino’s Campaign
  18. 11. Biding Time
  19. 12. The Second Romagna Campaign
  20. 13. The Borgias in excelsis
  21. 14. Cesare Strikes Out
  22. 15. Changing Fortunes
  23. 16. Cesare Survives
  24. 17. Borgia’s ‘Reconciliation’
  25. 18. Lucrezia in Ferrara
  26. 19. The Unforeseen
  27. 20. Desperate Fortune
  28. Epilogue
  29. Illustrations Insert
  30. Acknowledgements
  31. Sources
  32. Illustrations Credits
  33. Index
  34. Also by Paul Strathern
  35. A Note About the Author
  36. Copyright