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| 100 | 1 | _aGarner, John Leslie | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aCaesar Borgia: A Study of the Renaissance |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2018 |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2018-05-10 | ||
| 508 | _aE-text prepared by Charlie Howard and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) | ||
| 520 | _a"Caesar Borgia: A Study of the Renaissance" by John Leslie Garner is a historical account written in the early 20th century. The book delves into the life of Caesar Borgia, a prominent figure in the complex political landscape of the Italian Renaissance. Garner examines Borgia not just as an individual but as a product of his era, encapsulating the extreme ambition and ruthless egoism characteristic of the time. The opening of this work provides a rich historical context, discussing the rampant corruption and moral decay within the papacy and its intertwining with Italian politics during the 15th century. Garner implies that figures like Borgia emerged from a society marked by a struggle for power among various city-states and noble families, where treachery became commonplace. He highlights how Borgia, as the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI, navigated this treacherous political environment, underscoring the intertwining of personal ambition and the broader sociopolitical currents of Renaissance Italy. The author reveals the prevailing sentiment of the era, where the great man theory of history was being challenged, suggesting that Borgia's notoriety reflects not just his individual characteristics but also the tumultuous and often violent era in which he lived. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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| 653 | _aRenaissance -- Italy | ||
| 653 | _aBorgia, Cesare, 1476?-1507 | ||
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