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Family

When Mario Puzo published The Godfather, it became an international best-seller and the basis for three award-winning films. Readers continue to be fascinated by the saga of the Corleones, a contemporary Mafia family consumed by intricate relationships and ruthless pursuits of power. Now, in his final work, Puzo turns his attention to one of most notorious crime families in history: the Borgias. In the 15th century, the Vatican is corrupt, secretive, and political. Rodrigo Borgia, who becomes Pope Alexander VI through sheer bribery, stands at its center. A worldly pope, his lustful appetites are matched only by his love for his children--sons and daughters including the beautiful Lucrezia and the handsome warrior Ceasare. In Puzo's hands, the story of the Borgias' affairs becomes a vivid tapestry of pride, romance, jealousy, and betrayal. Puzo worked on The Family for two decades. Unfinished at his death, it has been masterfully completed by best-selling author Carol Gino. The final triumph of a great storyteller, The Family takes on special power through George Guidall's narration.

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  • "When Mario Puzo published The Godfather, it became an international best-seller and the basis for three award-winning films. Readers continue to be fascinated by the saga of the Corleones, a contemporary Mafia family consumed by intricate relationships and ruthless pursuits of power. Now, in his final work, Puzo turns his attention to one of most notorious crime families in history: the Borgias. In the 15th century, the Vatican is corrupt, secretive, and political. Rodrigo Borgia, who becomes Pope Alexander VI through sheer bribery, stands at its center. A worldly pope, his lustful appetites are matched only by his love for his children--sons and daughters including the beautiful Lucrezia and the handsome warrior Ceasare. In Puzo's hands, the story of the Borgias' affairs becomes a vivid tapestry of pride, romance, jealousy, and betrayal. Puzo worked on The Family for two decades. Unfinished at his death, it has been masterfully completed by best-selling author Carol Gino. The final triumph of a great storyteller, The Family takes on special power through George Guidall's narration."@en
  • "Puzo transports his readers back to fifteenth-century Rome and reveals the extravagance and intrigue of the Vatican. At the story's center is Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, a man whose lustful appetites for power, luxury, and women were matched only by his consuming love of family."
  • "Puzo transports his readers back to fifteenth-century Rome and reveals the extravagance and intrigue of the Vatican. At the story's center is Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, a man whose lustful appetites for power, luxury, and women were matched only by his consuming love of family."@en
  • "This is the story of the greatest power family in Italian history - the Borgias - the infamous family whose influence transformed Renaissance Italy."@en
  • ""In the 15th century, the Vatican is corrupt, secretive, and political. Rodrigo Borgia, who becomes Pope Alexander VI through sheer bribery, stands at its center. A worldly pope, his lustful appetites are matched only by his love for his children, sons and daughters including the beautiful Lucrezia and the handsome warrior Ceasare."--P. [4] of cover.--"@en
  • "Investigates the lives Rodrigo Borgia and his family and what it means to be a family."@en
  • "Tells the story of Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia who manipulates papal elections in 1492 to become the new Pope Alexander and his quest to establish a family dynasty."
  • "The story of the greatest power family in Italian history - the Borgias. At the story's center is Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, a man whose lustful appetites for power, luxury, and women were matched only by his consuming love of family."@en
  • "The story of the greatest power family in Italian history - the Borgias. At the story's center is Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, a man whose lustful appetites for power, luxury, and women were matched only by his consuming love of family."
  • "What is a family? Mario Puzo first answered that question in his landmark bestseller The Godfather, with the creation of the Corleones. Now, thirty years later, Puzo enriches us all with his ultimate vision of the subject: the story of the greatest crime family in Italian history -- the Borgias. In The Family, this singular novelist transports his readers back to fifteenth-century Rome, and reveals to us the extravagance and intrigue of the Vatican as surely as he once revealed the secrets of the Mafia. At the story's center is Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, a man whose lustful appetites were matched only by his consuming love of family. Surrounding him are his extraordinary children: simple, unloved Jofre; irascible, heartless Juan; beautiful, strong-willed Lucrezia; and passionate warrior Cesare, Machiavelli's friend and inspiration. Their stories constitute a symphony of human emotion and behavior, from pride to romance to jealousy to betrayal and murderous rage. A labor of love two decades in the making, The Family marks the final triumph of one of the greatest storytellers of our time."
  • "What is a family? Mario Puzo first answered that question in his landmark bestseller The Godfather, with the creation of the Corleones. Now, thirty years later, Puzo enriches us all with his ultimate vision of the subject: the story of the greatest crime family in Italian history, the Borgias. In "The family", this singular novelist transports his readers back to fifteenth-century Rome, and reveals to us the extravagance and intrigue of the Vatican as surely as he once revealed the secrets of the Mafia. At the story's center is Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, a man whose lustful appetites were matched only by his consuming love of family. Surrounding him are his extraordinary children: simple, unloved Jofre; irascible, heartless Juan; beautiful, strong-willed Lucrezia; and passionate warrior Cesare, Machiavelli's friend and inspiration."@en
  • "Mario Puzo offers us a portrait of another powerful family with his story of the Borgias in fifteenth century Rome. The story involves the gamut of human emotions from pride to romance, jealousy, betrayal and murderous rage."@en
  • "A novel set in a fifteenth-century Italy populated by corrupt popes and despotic families introduces the first of the mafia families--Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, and his children Jofre, Juan, Lucrezia, and Cesare."
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