In the Name of the Family

In the Name of the Family
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A Novel

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فرمت کتاب

audiobook

تاریخ انتشار

2017

نویسنده

Nicholas Boulton

شابک

9781524749545
  • اطلاعات
  • نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی

Publisher's Weekly

February 6, 2017
Renaissance doyenne Dunant (Blood and Beauty) turns her sights once again on the Borgia family. Pope Alexander VI is firmly entrenched in his powerful position, consumed with revenge against his enemies. His ambitious son, Cesare—with access to the church coffers—is spurred to take over more and more of Italy’s city-states, no matter the cost in money or lives, and his daughter, Lucrezia, a pawn in the power-hungry plans of her family, makes her own mark on 16th-century Italy. As the Borgia clan extends its reach, whether through bloody confrontations or cunning behind-the-scenes maneuvering, historian and diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli has a front-row seat for the various machinations, observing their stunning moves while advising his superiors in Florence how to deal with the changing political climes. Although the author occasionally gets caught up in some of the distracting internecine workings of factions against the pope (their opponents were many), Dunant is at her best focusing on the three Borgias, especially the conflicts between Cesare and his father as both gain in power and stature, and most particularly on the life of Lucrezia, forced into different marriages for political benefit, nearly dying from a debilitating flu, and finally coming to terms with the enigmatic Alfonso, son of the duke of Ferrara and her third husband, with whom she ensures the future of a powerful dynasty.



AudioFile Magazine
Sarah Dunant continues her saga of the Borgia family, which began with BLOOD AND BEAUTY, by adding a nuanced perspective of Niccolo Machiavelli. Narrator Nicholas Boulton does a particularly good job when narrating from the perspective of Machiavelli, Cesare Borgia, and Pope Alexander VI. His masculine voice transitions somewhat less smoothly to the sections told from the feminine perspective of Lucrezia Borgia who, along with Machiavelli, is the most interesting character in the book. Still, Boulton is evocative enough and Dunant's work transporting enough that it's easy to lose oneself in the backbiting, often-violent world of the Vatican and the surrounding city-states of Renaissance Italy. J.L.K. � AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine


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