I'm now trying to tear into 'The Life of Cesare Borgia' by Rafael Sabitini. He's generous and looks at the family in a more sympathetic light than what is usually attributed to them. The times were corrupt, the church had the greatest wealth, and attracted ambition and greed. Hopefully as I sink deeper, interesting history will be dusted off and not just efforts to refute previous biographies of the family-- though he is probably right that stories of incest and murder were made more colorful by previous historians trying to sell a juicy story.
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| A terrace hillside on Av.Gabriel Roca in Palma |
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