Sunday, August 24, 2014

Books Set in Europe: Italy

Blood and Beauty: The Borgias, by Sarah Dunant (2013)

This historical novel about the Borgias gets bogged down in places.  Sarah Dunant has written several novels about Italy during the Renaissance.  I enjoyed her earlier novels, The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesan much better.  I think that one needs a better history lesson of the Borgias and the events of Italy during the late 1400s and early 1500s to really enjoy this book.

3 Stars

Read:  August 24, 2014


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