For he was energy and will incarnate.

[the_grynne]

I'm rereading on my iPad Rafael Sabatini's "The Life of Cesare Borgia", for the first time since I was 14; Sabatini and Machiavelli, both big admirers of the Borgias, were my earliest exposure to the infamous family. Is it any wonder that I remain transfixed by them as I do?

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Comments

[linaerys]

I really need to read more about them. I am utterly entranced with Cesare on The Borgias and although that's partially the actor, I am loving the character as well. He is such an intriguing mix of innocence and worldliness, honor and cynicism.

[the_grynne]

The Borgias have been slandered so frequently throughout history, but there's been some contemporary histories and biographies (particularly of Lucrezia) that are less sensationalist - and probably more accurate. Sabatini, whilst not a historian, was at least not a subscriber to the widely held belief that they were the most immoral and evil people who ever lived.