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The Borgia chronicles, Mary Hollingsworth

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The Borgia family of Renaissance Italy has become a byword for pride, lust, cruelty, avarice, splendour and venomous intrigue. They have inspired abomination and fascination in almost equal measure, comparable to the Corleone clan depicted in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather. Indeed, Puzo himself featured the Borgias in his last novel, The Family, and the Borgias have inspired many other works of fiction together with plays, films, and even an opera - Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia. Of Spanish origin, the Borgias came to prominence in the Italy of the 15th century, at a time when the spiritual values of the medieval Church were being swept aside by the worldly secularism of the Renaissance. They also became notorious for licentiousness, venality and indeed all forms of immorality, while at the same time their patronage of the arts helped to bring about some of the greatest artistic masterpieces of the Renaissance
Language
eng
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Publication
Extent
384 pages
Isbn
9780857389169
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The Borgia chronicles
Title
The Borgia chronicles
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Mary Hollingsworth
Title variation
Borgias
Title variation remainder
history's most notorious dynasty
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Language
eng
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The Borgia family of Renaissance Italy has become a byword for pride, lust, cruelty, avarice, splendour and venomous intrigue. They have inspired abomination and fascination in almost equal measure, comparable to the Corleone clan depicted in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather. Indeed, Puzo himself featured the Borgias in his last novel, The Family, and the Borgias have inspired many other works of fiction together with plays, films, and even an opera - Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia. Of Spanish origin, the Borgias came to prominence in the Italy of the 15th century, at a time when the spiritual values of the medieval Church were being swept aside by the worldly secularism of the Renaissance. They also became notorious for licentiousness, venality and indeed all forms of immorality, while at the same time their patronage of the arts helped to bring about some of the greatest artistic masterpieces of the Renaissance
Biography type
individual biography
Cataloging source
AU@
Dewey number
945.6060922
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
  • portraits
  • genealogical tables
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
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  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 378) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
13878708
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28 cm.
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Extent
384 pages
Form of item
regular print reproduction
Isbn
9780857389169
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(hbk)
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unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Other physical details
illustrations (some color), map, portraits, geneological table
System control number
  • (Sirsi) MA200919
  • (OCoLC)754890358

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