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Title	:	In The Name of the Family (Borgias #2)
Author	:	Sarah Dunant
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 453 pages
Published	:	February 28th 2017 by Virago
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Italy

In The Name of the Family (Borgias #2)

Sarah Dunant

Hardcover | Pages: 453 pages

Rating: 3.75 | 2755 Users | 444 Reviews

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`It is better to be feared than loved' - Niccolo Machiavelli

In the bear pit of renaissance politics, a young Florentine diplomat finds himself first hand observer on the history's most notorious family - the Borgias.

In the Name of the Family - as Blood and Beauty did before - holds up a mirror to a turbulent moment of history, sweeping aside the myths to bring alive the real Borgia family; complicated, brutal, passionate and glorious. Here is a thrilling exploration of the House of Borgia's doomed years, in the company of a young diplomat named Niccolo Machiavelli.

It is 1502 and Rodrigo Borgia, a self-confessed womaniser and master of political corruption is now on the Papal throne as Alexander VI. His daughter Lucrezia, aged twenty-two, already thrice married and a pawn in her father's plans, is discovering her own power. And then there is Cesare Borgia: brilliant, ruthless and increasingly unstable; it is his relationship with the diplomat Machiavelli which offers a master class on 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 son's increasing maverick behavior it is Lucrezia who will become the Borgia survivor: taking on her enemies and creating her own place in history.

Conjuring up the past in all its complexity, horror and pleasures, In The Name of the Family confirms Sarah Dunant's place as the leading novelist of the Renaissance and one of the most acclaimed historical fiction writers of our age.

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Original Title:	In the Name of the Family
ISBN:	1844087468 (ISBN13: 9781844087464)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Borgias #2
Characters:	Cesare Borgia, Niccolò Machiavelli, Lucrezia Borgia, Pope Alexander VI

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This turned out to be the right book at the right time for me . I was craving a little historical fiction as well as a reprieve from the hangover I had from some grief filled books that I recently read. This gave me both. I give it 3.5 stars, and I can't round up to 4 stars because at times it felt somewhat dragged out. The other criticism I have is that some of the dialogue felt more modern than I would have thought. An unscrupulous man juggling the power of the papacy and the politics of Rome

Renaissance, Italy and the Borgias never fail to attract my notice. Such conflicted times, the church all powerful, the Borgias at the height of their powers. A corrupt Pope, his acknowledged children, the power they wield and of course Lucrezia. Tales of poison, excess, positioning of strengths, all enticing subjects but I had very mixed reaction to this book by an author whose work I had wonderful reading experiences in the past.The atmosphere was lacking, many times things were said or

Like her earlier novel "Blood and Beauty", this book is a novel of the Borgias.So. Like any novel about the Borgias there is blood, death, and really nasty things galore.I didn't think it was as good a read as the first book. It felt too disjointed. Towards the end it hops over ten years of history in one fell swoop leaving me with a "what the heck?" reaction.The handling of Rodrigo Borgia aka Pope Alexander VI was excellently done. The character had real depth and frankly would have carried the

Something is going on with Sarah Dunant; it is not the same hand that wrote The Birth of Venus and the subsequent few novels. There we had plot, great characters (ok, she's better with female characters than male), against lively historical background that did not intrude as notes taken down from library research. The last two books have been terribly dull, research-ey, dead on arrival. Paragraphs line up, characters speak, but nothing is alive. You follow Machiavelli down streets as he looks at

Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Amazon || PinterestIf BLOOD & BEAUTY is the rise of the Borgia family, then IN THE NAME OF THE FAMILY marks their fall. This rather chunky work of historical fiction details Alexander Borgia in his old age, losing first power, then his grasp on reality, and finally his own life. Beautiful and cunning Cesare is being consumed alive by syphilis, and soon, Lucrezia joins him, catching it from another husband who happens to be a little too fond of

I am a Sarah Dunant fan and while I quite enjoyed this book I did not love it. Its characters lacked the vital spark which brings them leaping from the page. I enjoyed the rescuing of Lucrezia's reputation in history and observations about the treatment and development of the pox, the Pope emerges as a real character with his love of sardines and Corsican wine, but there were a number of sections which were a bit dull, especially all the stuff with Bembo. I enjoyed the way Niccolo's fortunes

This is the second in Sarah Dunants series of book about the Borgias but it works well as a standalone novel. However, on the strength of this, I will definitely be adding the earlier one to my TBR pile.Sarah Dunant injects colour and life into a cast of real life characters who were already pretty colourful. Rodrigo Borgia, risen to become Pope Alexander VI, despite siring illegitimate children, including Cesare and Lucrezia, with a series of mistresses: For all the bombast and hyperbole about