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Title	:	In The Name of the Family (Borgias #2)
Author	:	Sarah Dunant
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 453 pages
Published	:	February 28th 2017 by Virago
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Italy

In The Name of the Family (Borgias #2)

Sarah Dunant

Hardcover | Pages: 453 pages

Rating: 3.75 | 2755 Users | 444 Reviews

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`It is better to be feared than loved' - Niccolo Machiavelli

In the bear pit of renaissance politics, a young Florentine diplomat finds himself first hand observer on the history's most notorious family - the Borgias.

In the Name of the Family - as Blood and Beauty did before - holds up a mirror to a turbulent moment of history, sweeping aside the myths to bring alive the real Borgia family; complicated, brutal, passionate and glorious. Here is a thrilling exploration of the House of Borgia's doomed years, in the company of a young diplomat named Niccolo Machiavelli.

It is 1502 and Rodrigo Borgia, a self-confessed womaniser and master of political corruption is now on the Papal throne as Alexander VI. His daughter Lucrezia, aged twenty-two, already thrice married and a pawn in her father's plans, is discovering her own power. And then there is Cesare Borgia: brilliant, ruthless and increasingly unstable; it is his relationship with the diplomat Machiavelli which offers a master class on the dark arts of power and politics. What Machiavelli 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 increasing maverick behavior it is Lucrezia who will become the Borgia survivor: taking on her enemies and creating her own place in history.

Conjuring up the past in all its complexity, horror and pleasures, In The Name of the Family confirms Sarah Dunant's place as the leading novelist of the Renaissance and one of the most acclaimed historical fiction writers of our age.

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Original Title:	In the Name of the Family
ISBN:	1844087468 (ISBN13: 9781844087464)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Borgias #2
Characters:	Cesare Borgia, Niccolò Machiavelli, Lucrezia Borgia, Pope Alexander VI

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Ratings: 3.75 From 2755 Users | 444 Reviews

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I stopped on page 77. Too pedestrian for me. I have put this aside for now.

I knew little about the Borgia family of the early 1500's going into this book, and I have not read Blood and Beauty...but this books seems to stand alone, and it's a whopper. I am always intrigued and appalled at the cruelty, lust for power - and plain lust - and moral depravity of these times. Sarah Dunant brought the Borgias - Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia), son Cesare, and daughter Lucretia, to vivid life, as well as Niccolo Machiavelli, author of The Prince. The Borgia's lives are all

It's April and this is firmly, absolutely, on my 'Books of the Year' list - no doubt about it at all. Dunant's been a 3-starrer for me until her Blood and Beauty and this sequel. She's adept at getting beneath the skin of figures made bloated and almost cartoonish via the scandalous historical gossip which has fed lurid novels and TV series sold on sex'n'murder. Dunant, instead, goes back to the sources and the scholarship and has fleshed them out so that Roderigo, Lucrezia and Cesare are real

Renaissance Italy and the Borgia family wrapped into a compelling novel. I knew very little about either before I started reading this book and have become much more knowledgeable from the book and the constant trips to Wikipedia I made. Rodrigo Borgia who became Pope Alexander VI, even though he had numerous illegitimate kids. The whole Borgia family and associates is covered as are there many marriages, murder plots, power plays, corruption, romances, wars and more murders.Jumping between

I've enjoyed reading nonfiction books about the Borgias but I just couldn't get into this historical fiction. The present tense narration (a pet peeve of mine) switched back and forth among Lucrezia, Cesare, Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) and Niccolo Machiavelli. They are certainly all intriguing characters, but by the time I abandoned the book about a third of the way in there still didn't seem to be an overriding plot making full use of these historical figures. I haven't read anything

I had no idea that Pope Alexander VI had multiple illegitimate children who all worked together to create the wealth of the Borgia's. They are all one in the same. This was a story of Italy and wealth and the family that I was totally unaware of. The book also includes Niccolo Machiavelli and I was unaware of his involvement too. Well written and intriguing.

I am a Sarah Dunant fan and while I quite enjoyed this book I did not love it. Its characters lacked the vital spark which brings them leaping from the page. I enjoyed the rescuing of Lucrezia's reputation in history and observations about the treatment and development of the pox, the Pope emerges as a real character with his love of sardines and Corsican wine, but there were a number of sections which were a bit dull, especially all the stuff with Bembo. I enjoyed the way Niccolo's fortunes