Bibliograph

In the name of the family, a novel, Sarah Dunant

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In the name of the family, a novel, Sarah Dunant

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

In the name of the family

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bibliography

Responsibility statement

Sarah Dunant

Sub title

a novel

Summary

It is 1502 and Rodrigo Borgia, a self-confessed womanizer and master of political corruption, is now on the papal throne as Alexander VI. His daughter Lucrezia, aged twenty-two--already three times married and a pawn in her father's plans--is discovering her own power. And then there is his son Cesare Borgia, brilliant, ruthless, and increasingly unstable; it is his relationship with Machiavelli that gives the Florentine diplomat a master class on the dark arts of power and politics. What he learns will go on to inform his great work of modern politics, The Prince. But while the pope rails against old age and his son's increasingly maverick behavior, it is Lucrezia who must navigate the treacherous court of Urbino and another challenging marriage to create her own place in history

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