The House of Borgia - Tapa dura

Críticas

Hibbert captures quite brilliantly the extravagance and immorality at the heart of the papal empire on the eve of the Reformation. (Good Book Guide)

For anyone who likes Christmas stuffed with bribery, murder and lashings of nepotism. (Time Out)

Few could have told the story better ... pacy, uncluttered and an eye for resonant detail. Sparkling. (Tribune Magazine)

Verve and vitality. (The Sunday Times)

A coherent and colourful historical record of the Borgias. (Literary Review)

Hibbert tells a good story. (Times Literary Supplement)

Hibbert is so comfortable in this alien world that his interests are those of nuanced insider rather than bemused outsider. (The Tablet)

Reseña del editor

The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy.

The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven papal offspring also rose to power and fame - Lucrezia Borgia, his daughter, whose husband was famously murdered by her brother, and that brother, Cesare, who served as the model for Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince. Notorious for seizing power, wealth, land, and titles through bribery, marriage, and murder, the dynasty's dramatic rise from its Spanish roots to its occupation of the highest position in Renaissance society forms a gripping tale.

Erudite, witty, and always insightful, Hibbert removes the layers of myth around the Borgia family and creates a portrait alive with his superb sense of character and place.

Praise for Christopher Hibbert:

'A pearl of biographers' New Statesman

'Perhaps the most gifted popular historian we have' The Times Educational Supplement