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02503aim a2200433Ka 4500 001 2A35379C018211E39BDD5AB2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20220316010223 007 sd fsngnnmmneu 008 121113s2013 mdunnnn f n eng d 020 $a 0385393423 020 $a 9780385393423 028 02 $a RHA 4140 $b Random House Audio 035 $a (OCoLC)818723207 040 $d SILO 082 04 $a 823/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Dunant, Sarah 245 10 $a Blood & beauty $h [sound recording] : $b the Borgias : a novel / $c Sarah Dunant 246 3 $a Blood and beauty 250 $a Unabridged 260 $a [Westminster, MD] : $b Books on Tape $c [2013] 300 $a 14 sound discs (1056 min.) : $b digital ; $c 4 3/4 in 500 $a CATALOGED FROM WEB PAGE 500 $a Compact discs 511 0 $a Read by Edoardo Ballerini 520 $a "By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and inside the Church. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy as Alexander VI, he is defined not just by his wealth or his passionate love for his illegitimate children, but by his blood: He is a Spanish Pope in a city run by Italians. If the Borgias are to triumph, this charismatic, consummate politician with a huge appetite for life, women, and power must use papacy and family-- in particular, his eldest son, Cesare, and his daughter Lucrezia-- in order to succeed. Cesare, with a dazzlingly cold intelligence and an even colder soul, is his greatest-- though increasingly unstable-- weapon. Later immortalized in Machiavelli's The Prince, he provides the energy and the muscle. Lucrezia, beloved by both men, is the prime dynastic tool. Twelve years old when the novel opens, hers is a journey through three marriages, and from childish innocence to painful experience, from pawn to political player" -- from publisher's web site 600 30 $a Borgia family $v Fiction 650 0 $a Nobility $z Papal States $z Papal States $v Fiction 650 0 $a Church and state $v Fiction 651 0 $a Italy $x History $y 1492-1559 $v Fiction 655 7 $a Biographical fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Suspense fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Audiobooks. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Ballerini, Edoardo, $d 1970- 941 $a 1 945 $a cdab 952 $l TGPD826 $d 20150508031654.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2A35379C018211E39BDD5AB2DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search