![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What Machiavelli learns will go on to inform his great work of modern politics, The Prince. 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. His daughter Lucrezia, aged twenty-two, already thrice married and a pawn in her father's plans, is discovering her own power. It is 1502 and Rodrigo Borgia, a self-confessed womaniser and master of political corruption is now on the Papal throne as Alexander VI. Here is a thrilling exploration of the House of Borgia's doomed years, in the company of a young diplomat named Niccolo Machiavelli. ![]() 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. ![]()
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