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Author : Rafael Sabatini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
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Release : 1926
Category : Renaissance
ISBN : UOM:49015002059229
Author : Rafael Sabatini
Publisher : e-artnow
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Release : 2020-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : EAN:4064066400255
The Life of Cesare Borgia is a biographical account of Italian politician and mercenary leader whose fight for power was a major inspiration for The Prince by Machiavelli. Cesare Borgia_x000D_ was an illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI and member of the Spanish-Aragonese House of Borgia, which rose to prominence during the Italian Renaissance. After initially entering the church and becoming a cardinal on his father's election to the Papacy, he became, after the death of his brother in 1498, the first person to resign a cardinalate. He served as a condottiero for the King of France Louis XII around 1500 and occupied Milan and Naples during the Italian Wars. At the same time he carved out a state for himself in Central Italy, but after his father's death he was unable to retain power for long. The author's goal was to, through the thorough research, present a faithful biography of Cesare Borgia leaving aside the bad reputation he and his family had. He used numerous primary sources to scrape away centuries of innuendo, hypotheses and reiterated falsehoods that have varnished the Borgias. The author criticizes much of the previous historical work that shines a dark light on the life of the 16th century Borgias. He goes to great lengths to provide proof for his history and dispels the myths and bad name the Borgias have had at the hands of historians over the centuries.
Author : Rafael Sabatini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
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Release : 1913
Category : Italy
ISBN : UCD:31175007330734
Author : Rafael Sabatini
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 332 pages
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Release : 2019-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4057664652379
Rafael Sabatini presents a detailed biography of Cesare Borgia, one of the most intriguing figures of the Italian Renaissance. This book delves into Borgia's life, his ambitions, and the political landscape of Italy during his time. Sabatini's meticulous research and engaging narrative style bring to life the complexities and intrigues of Renaissance Italy.
Author : Rafael Sabatini
Publisher : Moulton Press
Page : 454 pages
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Release : 2010-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781444695212
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Author : Rafael Sabatini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
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Release : 2015-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1332328245
Excerpt from The Life of Cesare Borgia: Of France, Duke of Valentinois and Romagna, Prince of Andria and Venafri Count of Dyois, Lord of Piombino, Camerino and Urbino, Gonfalonier and Captain-General of Holy Church a History and Some Criticisms This is no Chronicle of Saints. Nor yet is it a History of Devils. It is a record of certain very human, strenuous men in a very human, strenuous age; a lustful, flamboyant age; an age red with blood and pale with passion at white-heat; an age of steel and velvet, of vivid colour, dazzling light and impenetrable shadow; an age of swift movement, pitiless violence and high endeavour, of sharp antitheses and amazing contrasts. To judge it from the standpoint of this calm, deliberate, and correct century - as we conceive our own to be - is for sedate middle-age to judge from its own standpoint the reckless, hot, passionate, lustful humours of youth, of youth that errs grievously and achieves greatly. So to judge that epoch collectively is manifestly wrong, a hopeless procedure if it be our aim to understand it and to be in sympathy with it, as it becomes broad-minded age to be tolerantly in sympathy with the youth whose follies it perceives. Life is an ephemeral business, and we waste too much of it in judging where it would beseem us better to accept, that we ourselves may come to be accepted by such future ages as may pursue the study of us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Rafael Sabatini
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 474 pages
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Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1289813108
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Author : Rafael Sabatini
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 464 pages
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Release : 2014-02-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1293653225
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Author : Rafael Sabatini
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 474 pages
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Release : 2015-09-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1341165760
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Author : Rafael Sabatini
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 518 pages
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Release : 2022-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368327897
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Author : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Publisher : Braithwaite Press
Page : 464 pages
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Release : 2008-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443719964
PREFACE - THIS is no Chronicle of Saints. Nor yet is it a History of Devils. It is a record of certain very human, strenuous men in a very human, strenuous age a lustful, flamboyant age an age red with blood and pale with passion at white-heat an age of steel and velvet, of vivid colour, dazzling light and impenetrable shadow an age of swift movement, pitiless violence and high endeavour, of sharp antitheses and amazing contrasts. To judge it from the standpoint of this calm, deliberate, and correct century as we conceive our own to be is for sedate middle-age to judge from its own standpoint the reckless, hot, passionate, lustful humours of youth, of youth that errs grievausly and achieves greatly. So to judge that epoch collectively is manifestly wrong, a hopeless procedure if it be our aim to understand it and to be in sympathy with it, as it becomes broad-minded age to be tolerantly in sympathy with the youth whose follies it perceives. Life is an ephemeral business, and we waste too much of it in judging where it would beseem us better to accept, that we ourselves may come to be accepted by such future ages as may pursue the study of us. But if it be wrong to judge a past epoch collectively by the standards of our own time, how much more is it not wrong to single out individuals for judgement by those same standards, after detaching them for the purpose from the environment in which they had their being How false must be the conception of them thus obtained We view the individuals so selected through a microscope of modern focus. They appear monstrous and abnormal, and we straight- way assume them to be monsters and abnormalities, neer considering that the fault is in the adjustmentof the instrument through which we inspect them, and that until that is corrected others of that same past age, if similarly viewed, must appear similarly distorted. Hence it follows that some study of an age must ever prelude and accompany the study of its in- dividuals, if comprehension is to wait upon our labours. To proceed otherwise is to judge an indi- vidual Hottentot or South Sea Islander by the code of manners that obtains in Belgravia or Mayfair. Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of an age, the suiviving and immortal part of it and in the literature of the Cinquecento you shall behold for the looking e-ardent, unmoral, naive soul of this Renaissance that was sprawling in its lusty, naked infancy and bellowing hungrily for the pap of knowledge, and for other things. You shall infer something of the-gassionate mettle of this infafat .J -tempestuous mirth, his fierce rages, his simplicity, his naivete his inquisitiveness, his cunning, his deceit his cruelty, his love of sunshine and bright gewgaws. To realize him as he was, you need but to bethink you that this was the age in which the Decamerone of Giovanni Boccaccio, the Facetie of Poggio, the Satires of Filelfo, and the Hermaphroditus of Panormitano afforded reading-matter to both sexes. This was the age in which the learned and erudite Lorenzo Valla-of whom more anon-wrote his famous in- dictment of virginity, condemning it as against nature with arguments of a most insidious logic...
Author : Rafael Sabatini
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : EAN:4064066382360
The Life of Cesare Borgia is a biographical account of Italian politician and mercenary leader whose fight for power was a major inspiration for The Prince by Machiavelli. Cesare Borgia was an illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI and member of the Spanish-Aragonese House of Borgia, which rose to prominence during the Italian Renaissance. After initially entering the church and becoming a cardinal on his father's election to the Papacy, he became, after the death of his brother in 1498, the first person to resign a cardinalate. He served as a condottiero for the King of France Louis XII around 1500 and occupied Milan and Naples during the Italian Wars. At the same time he carved out a state for himself in Central Italy, but after his father's death he was unable to retain power for long. The author's goal was to, through the thorough research, present a faithful biography of Cesare Borgia leaving aside the bad reputation he and his family had. He used numerous primary sources to scrape away centuries of innuendo, hypotheses and reiterated falsehoods that have varnished the Borgias. The author criticizes much of the previous historical work that shines a dark light on the life of the 16th century Borgias. He goes to great lengths to provide proof for his history and dispels the myths and bad name the Borgias have had at the hands of historians over the centuries.
Author : Sarah Bradford
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241958766
THE FULL STORY BEHIND THE BORGIAS, NOW A MAJOR TV DRAMA STARRING JEREMY IRONS 'Either Caesar or nothing' was the motto of Cesare Borgia, whose name has long been synonymous with evil. Almost five centuries have passed since his death, yet his reputation still casts a sinister shadow. He stands accused of treachery, cruelty, rape, incest and, especially, murder - assassination by poison, the deadly white powder concealed in the jewelled ring, or by the midnight band of bravos lurking in the alleys of Renaissance Rome. This classic book by acclaimed historian and biographer Sarah Bradford (author of Lucrezia Borgia and Diana), is the drama of a man of exceptional gifts and a driving lust for power. Cesare Borgia dared fortune for the highest goals and when fate turned against him he fell like Lucifer. Set against the brilliant backcloth of High Renaissance Italy, his life had the perfect proportions of a Greek tragedy.
Author : Raphael Sabatini
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1986410579
The Life of Cesare Borgia By Raphael Sabatini Of France, Duke of Valentinois and Romagna, Prince of Andria and Venafri Count of Dynois, Lord of Piombino, Camerino and Urbino.Gonfalonier and Captain-General of Holy Church. A HISTORY AND SOME CRITICISMS
Author : William Harrison Woodward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Italy
ISBN : UOM:39015063055019