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  • Blood & Beauty

  • By: Sarah Dunant
  • Narrated by: John Telfer
  • Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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Blood & Beauty

By: Sarah Dunant
Narrated by: John Telfer
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Rodrigo Borgia picks up his papal skirts and walks out on to the public balcony. Sixty-one years old. How many years does he have in front of him? By his age, four of the five popes he had served were already rotting in their tombs. Sixty-one. Three sons, a ripening daughter and a sublime young mistress, ready to drop more fruit.

Borgia blood. Thick with ambition and determination. How long does he need? Give him another ten - no, fifteen - summers and he will have the bull crest emblazoned over half of Italy. The crowd roars its greeting. But as Pope Alexander VI lifts his hands to offer the traditional blessing, silence falls. The clothes have become the man.

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©2013 Sarah Dunant (P)2013 Hachette Audio
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Critic reviews

"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)

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