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In the Name of the Family
Sarah Dunant
Random House
March 2017
On Sale: March 7, 2017
ISBN: 0812996976
EAN: 9780812996975
Kindle: B01HWKUOME
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Fiction Family Life
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 Niccolò Machiavelli. It is 1502 and Rodrigo Borgia, a selfconfessed 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 in the dark arts of power and politics. What he
learns will 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. Sarah Dunant again employs her remarkable gifts as a storyteller to
bring to life the passionate men and women of the Borgia family, as well
as the ever-compelling figure of Machiavelli, through whom the reader
will experience one of the most fascinating—and doomed—dynasties of
all time.
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