Cesare Borgia. Rafael Sabatini
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Название: Cesare Borgia

Автор: Rafael Sabatini

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       Rafael Sabatini

      Cesare Borgia

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       Preface

       Book I. The House of the Bull

       Chapter I. The Rise of the House of Borgia

       Chapter II. The Reigns Of Sixtus IV and Innocent VIII

       Chapter III. Alexander VI

       Chapter IV. Borgia Alliances

       Book II. The Bull Pascant

       Chapter I. The French Invasion

       Chapter II. The Pope and the Supernatural

       Chapter III. The Roman Barons

       Chapter IV. The Murder of the Duke of Gandia

       Chapter V. The Renunciation of the Purple

       Book III. The Bull Rampant

       Chapter I. The Duchess of Valentinois

       Chapter II. The Knell of the Tyrants

       Chapter III. Imola and Forli

       Chapter IV. Gonfalonier of the Church

       Chapter V. The Murder of Alfonso of Aragon

       Chapter VI. Rimini and Pesaro

       Chapter VII. The Siege of Faenza

       Chapter VIII. Astorre Manfredi

       Chapter IX. Castel Bolognese and Piombino

       Chapter X. The End of the House of Aragon

       Chapter XI. The Letter to Silvio Savelli

       Chapter XII. Lucrezia’s Third Marriage

       Chapter XIII. Urbino and Camerino

       Chapter XIV. The Revolt of the Condottieri

       Chapter XV. Macchiavelli’s Legation

       Chapter XVI. Ramiro de Lorqua

       Chapter XVII. “The Beautiful Stratagem”

       Chapter XVIII. The Zenith

       Book IV. The Bull Cadent

       Chapter I. The Death of Alexander VI

       Chapter II. Pius III

       Chapter III. Julius II

       Chapter IV. Atropos

      PREFACE

       Table of Contents

      This is no Chronicle of Saints. Nor yet is it a History of Devils. It is a record of certain very human, strenuous men in a very human, strenuous age; a lustful, flamboyant age; an age red with blood and pale with passion at white-heat; an age of steel and velvet, of vivid colour, dazzling light and impenetrable shadow; an age of swift movement, pitiless violence and high endeavour, of sharp antitheses and amazing contrasts.

      To judge it from the standpoint of this calm, deliberate, and correct century—as we conceive our own to be—is for sedate middle-age to judge from its own standpoint the reckless, hot, passionate, lustful humours of youth, of youth that errs grievously and achieves greatly.

      So to judge that epoch collectively is manifestly wrong, a hopeless procedure if it be our СКАЧАТЬ