BLOOD AND BEAUTY
Book ID/图书代码： 00200012B53422
English Summary/英文概要： From the acclaimed novelist of the Italian renaissance, Sarah Dunant, comes a visceral, epic novel that will challenge what we think we know about one of history’s most dynamic and maligned families, the Borgias.Rooted in the energetic, brutal and corrupt world of 15th Century Italy, BLOOD AND BEAUTY opens with Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, clever and charismatic, buying his way to the Papal crown. In this he is not unusual. Neither is the fact that he has illegitimate children.
What does mark him out is his blood; he is a Spaniard in a country run by established Italian families. To thrive, even to survive, he must create his own dynasty using the papacy and his family as the building blocks of power. His son Cesare is his most brilliant pupil. Fearless and calculating (later immortalised as Machiavelli’s The Prince) he provides the driving energy and the muscle. The Pope’s daughter, Lucrezia, beloved by both men, is their marriage tool. Just 12 when the novel opens, she is to have one dynastic union annulled, and a second – loved – husband murdered by her own brother to make way for a third strategic marriage, all before the age of 20. Hers is a journey from pawn to political player.
Using the high wire tension of a political thriller, this portrait of power and its personal costs is the most thrilling family saga to come out of Italy since The Godfather. The Borgias emerge, not as the poisoning sexual monsters of popular myth, but in all their ruthless determination and complex humanity. They will not easily be forgotten.
Chinese Summary/中文概要：
薩拉•杜南，這位寫義大利文藝復興而聞名的小說家，推出了一本用真心寫就的史詩小說《豔美似血》。她描寫了歷史上最活躍，非議最多的家族，博爾雅思家族，她推翻了我們對這個家族的所有的認識。
《豔美似血》以15世紀殘忍腐敗、活力四射的義大利為背景，從羅德里戈•博爾吉亞紅衣主教寫起。他魅力四射，聰穎睿智，但羅馬教皇的職位卻是用錢買來的。這對於他來說並不稀罕，除此之外，他還有一個私生子。
但他最大的秘密是他的身世。他有著西班牙血統，卻生存在由顯赫的義大利家族管理的國家中。為了成功，甚至是為了生存，他只能利用教皇的職權和自己的家人來堆砌權利的城堡，創造自己的王朝。他的兒子切薩雷是他最優秀的弟子。他有勇有謀，為父親積攢權利和戰鬥力，最後被馬基雅弗利（義大利政治家）尊為“王子”。主教的女兒盧克雷齊婭受到父親和哥哥的疼愛，但還是被用作政治婚姻的工具，故事剛開始時，她才12歲，隨後因為她，兩個國家的聯合被取消，她哥哥殺了她的情人，為了成就另一個政治聯姻。她20歲不到就經歷了這些，慢慢從一個小女子變成政治人物。
博爾雅思家族緊張的政治鬥爭是義大利從“教父”之後對權利和個人犧牲最生動的家族驚悚傳奇。博爾雅思家族並不是暢銷小說中喪心病狂的性愛怪獸。作者要表現的是他們決絕和複雜的人性。他們不會被忘記。（Celia)
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"She writes like a painter, and thinks like a philosopher . . . A tour de force of storytelling" - Amanda Foreman
"A writer of powerful historical imagination and wicked literary gifts" - Simon Schama
About the Author/作者介绍：
薩拉•杜南共有八本著作，包括《紐約時報》暢銷小說《維納斯的誕生》，她編輯了兩本散文集，還工作於出版業、媒體、廣播業。現在她是一名全職作家，和兩個孩子住在倫敦和佛羅倫斯。
Sarah Dunant has written eight novels, including the New York Times bestseller The Birth of Venus, and edited two books of essays. She has worked widely in print, television, and radio, and is now a full-time writer. Dunant has two children and lives in London and Florence.
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