I enjoyed the TV series and I wanted to know how much of it was true. Also, there was supposed to be a fourth season but it was cancelled due to cost, so I wanted to know how things ended.This book satisfied my needs. The TV series is a drama so they took liberties, but the gist of their story wa...
They say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover - I didn't do that, and I'm happy for it! (but more on that a bit later)This is a good book on pope Alexander VI and his children (mostly Cesare and Lucrezia) - a Renaissance pope who acted much a secular leader would have done at the time. The Bor...
It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. It shaped all of Europe and controlled politics, scientists, artists, and even popes, for three hundred years. It was the house of Medici, patrons of Botticelli, Michelangelo and G...
A brilliant, and insightful account of one of histories most famous, yet least understood milestones.Many of the causes of The Revolution were examined, such as the rising cost of bread, the large middle class population that was hurt significantly by the policies of Louis XVI's finance minister,...
After a brief detour to visit the grieving Lucrezia at Nepi, he joined his formidable army of over ten thousand men, who had now reached the foothills of the Apennines. Marching under Cesare’s command were some of the finest condottieri captains available; or, as Machiavelli put it, ‘nearly all t...