In the Name of the Family

✍ Scribed by Sarah Dunant

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 282 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0812996984

✦ Synopsis

The author of _Blood & Beauty _returns with another captivating novel about Renaissance Italy and one of history's most notorious families. Before the Corleones, before the Lannisters, there was the Borgias.
Bestselling novelist Sarah Dunant has long been drawn to the wonders of Renaissance Italy: power, passion, beauty, brutality, and the ties of blood. With In the Name of the Family, she __ offers a thrilling exploration of the House of Borgia's final years, in the company of a young diplomat named Niccolo Machiavelli.
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...