The Borgias Celebrated Crimes
A Mystery, Abandoned, History book. The subjects which he has chosen, however, are of both historic and dramatic importance, and they have...
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The Imperial throne was occupied by Frederic III, who had been rightly named the Peaceful, not for the reason that he had always maintained peace, but because, having constantly been beaten, he had always been forced to make it. Alexandre Dumas, The Borgias by Alexandre Dumas, History, Europe, Italy, Renaissance // these groups followed some solitary passer-by, hurrying his steps; one after another the doors were closed, one after Alexandre Dumas, The Borgias Celebrated Crimes // As to the new pope, scarcely had he completed the formalities of etiquette which his exaltation imposed upon him, and paid to each man the price of his simony, when from the height of the Vatican he cast his eyes upon Europe, a vast political game of chess, which he cherished the hope of directing at the will of his own genius. Alexandre Dumas, The Borgias Celebrated Crimes //
Very much a more militaristic view of the life of the Borgia clan. Extremely dry reading. Very little about Lucrezia, more about Caesar (I've always seen it spelled as Cesare.....) and somewhat about Rodrigo/Pope Alexander. And while I realize this is a translation from Italian, it was full of spelling errors which absolutely drove... Questo libro ha fondamentalmente due pecche: una che la storia dei Borgia molto romanzata; la seconda, non imputabile a Dumas, bens alla casa editrice, la scritta fuorviante "narrativa" sulla copertina del libro. L'opera infatti non un romanzo, ma un saggio, facente parte di una serie di saggi che Dumas scrisse a proposito di vari personaggi... Quella dei Borgia certamente la famiglia pi discussa della storia rinascimentale. La loro fama dovuta non solo al carisma della figura di Cesare Borgia, il feroce condottiero che ispir Il Principe di Machiavelli, ma soprattutto alla dissolutezza, presunta o reale, che stata a lungo attribuita al cardinale Rodrigo (al secolo Papa Alessandro...
