The Borgias: Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy by Paul Strathern

The Borgias: Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy

Italian Histories

Paul Strathern

400 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced
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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 ful...

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