Rafael Sabatini
Cesare Borgia
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Table of Contents
Chapter I. The Rise of the House of Borgia
Chapter II. The Reigns Of Sixtus IV and Innocent VIII
Chapter I. The French Invasion
Chapter II. The Pope and the Supernatural
Chapter IV. The Murder of the Duke of Gandia
Chapter V. The Renunciation of the Purple
Chapter I. The Duchess of Valentinois
Chapter II. The Knell of the Tyrants
Chapter IV. Gonfalonier of the Church
Chapter V. The Murder of Alfonso of Aragon
Chapter VII. The Siege of Faenza
Chapter VIII. Astorre Manfredi
Chapter IX. Castel Bolognese and Piombino
Chapter X. The End of the House of Aragon
Chapter XI. The Letter to Silvio Savelli
Chapter XII. Lucrezia’s Third Marriage
Chapter XIII. Urbino and Camerino
Chapter XIV. The Revolt of the Condottieri
Chapter XV. Macchiavelli’s Legation
Chapter XVII. “The Beautiful Stratagem”
Chapter I. The Death of Alexander VI
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 grievously and achieves greatly.
So to judge that epoch collectively is manifestly wrong, a hopeless procedure if it be our
