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02781aam a22004338i 4500 001 B363BBB016A011E79DE0D5C5DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170401010151 008 170127t20172017meu d 000 1 eng 010 $a 2017002579 020 $a 1410495809 020 $a 9781410495808 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-it--- 082 00 $a 823/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Dunant, Sarah. 245 10 $a In the name of the family $h [large print] / $c by Sarah Dunant. 250 $a Large print edition. 263 $a 1703. 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, $c 2017. 300 $a 642 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a Bestselling novelist Sarah Dunant has long been drawn to the high drama of Renaissance Italy: power, passion, beauty, brutality, and the ties of blood. With In the Name of the Family, she offers a thrilling exploration of the House of Borgias final years, in the company of a young diplomat named NiccoloÌ Machiavelli. 520 $a It is 1502 and Rodrigo Borgia, a self-confessed womanizer and master of political corruption, is now on the papal throne as Alexander VI. His daughter Lucrezia, aged twenty-twoalready three times married and a pawn in her fathers plansis discovering her own power. And then there is his son Cesare Borgia, brilliant, ruthless, and increasingly unstable; it is his relationship with Machiavelli that gives the Florentine diplomat a master class in 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 sons increasingly erratic behavior, it is Lucrezia who must navigate the treacherous court of Urbino, her new home, and another challenging marriage to create her own place in history. 520 $a Sarah Dunant again employs her remarkable gifts as a storyteller to bring to life the passionate men and women of the Borgia family, as well as the ever-compelling figure of Machiavelli, through whom the reader will experience one of the most fascinatingand doomeddynasties of all time. 650 0 $a Borgia family $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Nobility $z Papal states $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Italy $x History $y 1492-1559 $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Rome (Italy) $x History $y 1420-1798 $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Biographical fiction. $2 gsafd. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd. 650 $a Large type books. 941 $a 4 945 $a lpt 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012020914.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20170726013218.0 952 $l HPPD845 $d 20170622010539.0 952 $l CYPF706 $d 20170518010222.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B363BBB016A011E79DE0D5C5DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search