by Christopher Hibbert
Have you seen the Showtime series? The Borgia’s would be so much cooler if they were actually like that. Still worth reading to get the idea of Italian Papal politics, but not half as interesting if they had really poisoned people.
The Borgia family has always held an allure for me since I lived on a street named after them when I was a child. In addition, I was raised a Catholic, so the Popes are intriguing to me, especially those during the period where the church was more of a political entity. When I heard that Showtime ...