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The Brand New York Times-Bestselling writer of the acclaimed Italian Renaissance novels—The Delivery of Venus, In the Organization of the Courtesan, and Holy Hearts—has a great talent for breathing life into background. Today Sarah Dunant turns her critical eye to 1 of the world’s many notorious and interesting families—the Borgias—in an engrossing work of literary fiction.   By the finish of the fifteenth century, the wonder and imagination of France is coordinated by its violence and crime, nowhere significantly more than in Rome and within the Chapel. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way in to the papacy as Alexander VI, he's described not only by his success or his fervent love for his illegitimate kids, but by his body: He's a Spanish Pope in a town run by Italians.