{"product_id":"the-story-of-the-borgias","title":"The Story of the Borgias","description":"xi, 345 pp. Red boards. Gilt titles and gilt decor. Top page ridge gilt. The story of the Borgia family has always been one of strangely fascinating interest; but a lurid legend grew up about their lives, which culminated in the creation of the fantastic monstrosities of Victor Hugo's play and Donizetti's Opera. For three centuries their name was a byword for the Vilest infamy but in our own day there has been an extraordinary swing of the pendulum, which is hard to account for. Quite a number of para doxical writers have proclaimed to an astonished and mystified world that Pope Alexander VI was both a wise prince and a gentle priest whose motives and actions have been maliciously misrepresented; that Cesare Borgia was a noble minded and enlightened statesman, who, three centuries in advance of his time, endeavoured to form a united Italy by the only means then in anybody's power; and that Lucrezia Borgia was a paragon of all the virtues. CONTENTS: Introduction; The Rise of the Borgia; The French Invasion; Divorce and Murder; Cesare Borgia, Duke and Romagna; Lucrezia Borgia, Princess of Este; The Culmination; The Downfall; Life in a Fifteenth-Century City; Lurcrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara; A Saint of the House of Borgia; Index.","brand":"Eveleigh Nash","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29393551032390,"sku":"2290356","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2290356.jpg?v=1571427157","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/the-story-of-the-borgias","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}